Network and distributed systems management
Network and distributed systems management
Impossibility of distributed consensus with one faulty process
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
The Byzantine Generals Problem
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
An open Architecture for Inter-domain Communications Management in the PREPARE Testbed
Proceedings of the 2nd Intermational Conference on Broadband Islands: Towards Integration
A Broadband Testbed for the Investigation of Multimedia Services and Teleservice Management
Proceedings of the 3rd Intermational Conference on Broadband Islands: Connecting with the End-User
End-to-End Service Management with Multiple Providers
IS&N '94 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligence in Broadband Services and Networks: Towards a Pan-European Telecommunication Service Infrastructure
IS&N '94 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligence in Broadband Services and Networks: Towards a Pan-European Telecommunication Service Infrastructure
On the minimal synchronism needed for distributed consensus
SFCS '83 Proceedings of the 24th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
Intelligent networking for the global marketplace
IEEE Communications Magazine
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Due to the liberalization of the telecommunications market, we expect public and private organizations to compete in an open market of basic and value-added services. Broadband networks, high performance multimedia and mobile end systems, distributed information systems, open distributed applications, user and terminal mobility, and multimedia tele-services with different qualities will form the basis for various services to be provided at different costs and with various modalities of use. The provision of such services in a way which meets the users' requirements can be guaranteed only if all the required resources, including the underlying network and the available end systems, are supervised and controlled effectively by an adequate open distributed management system. In addition, the size and scale of future networks, the openness of applications, and the global use of tele-services will require management systems which cross the boundaries of different autonomous management domains. The coordination and cooperation between autonomous operators and managers will be inevitable. This paper describes an integrated approach to open distributed management. It is based on an inter-domain management concept, and comprises an architecture which provides a framework for the development and operation of management services. The architecture includes a development and a run-time environment. The run-time environment consists of an administration platform, an inter-domain management information service and a trader. The development environment comprises a tool-box and construction kits for management services and management user interfaces. Open distributed management applications used for the validation of the architecture and its components are outlined. An overview of future activities concludes the paper.