Journal of Network and Systems Management
An Approach to Network Control and Resource Management Based on Intelligent Agents
IS&N '00 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligence and Services in Networks: Telecommunications and IT Convergence Towards Service E-volution
The TINA network resource model
IEEE Communications Magazine
The IEEE P1520 standards initiative for programmable network interfaces
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Communications Magazine
Distributed object technology for networking
IEEE Communications Magazine
Active distributed management for IP networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
TMN-based broadband ATM network management
IEEE Communications Magazine
Software Switch Extensions for Portable Deployment of Traffic Control Algorithms
INTERWORKING '00 Proceedings of the 5th IFIP TC6 International Symposium on Next Generation Networks, Networks and Services for the Information Society
Web services-based network management: approaches and the WSNET system
International Journal of Network Management
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ATM network management has not yet reached the level of versatility and comprehensiveness exhibited by other aspects of this networking technology. Since the currently dominant general standards for broadband network management, primarily targeted towards large carrier networks, are too complex and intricate for smaller environments, e.g. LANs or corporate networks, ATM equipment manufacturers, in their effort to provide systems that exploit the power of ATM and yet remain practical and simple, usually resort to devising ad hoc proprietary extensions of simpler management frameworks, originally developed for other networking technologies. Such incompatible extensions, however, remain useless in the common case where the network is heterogeneous. The notion of abstract information modeling may be employed for improving on this situation. Building on this concept, the paper proposes a framework for developing ATM management systems intended for heterogeneous small- to medium-size networks. The general guidelines are illustrated through discussing a specific compliant management application intended for the remote monitoring of ATM network platforms and developed in the framework of a European research project. The application features a WWW interface and, as such, provides an example of the compatibility of information abstraction with the Web-based management techniques and of the benefits arising from the combination of the two notions. Lastly, and as the concept of abstracting information is inherent to recent frameworks for designing and programming distributed object systems, the paper explores this relation by discussing an alternative design of the monitoring application as a distributed object system.