A generic architecture for autonomic service and network management

  • Authors:
  • Yu Cheng;Ramy Farha;Myung Sup Kim;Alberto Leon-Garcia;James Won-Ki Hong

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ont., Canada M5S 3G4;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ont., Canada M5S 3G4;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ont., Canada M5S 3G4;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ont., Canada M5S 3G4;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • Computer Communications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

As the Internet evolves into an all-IP communication infrastructure, a key issue to consider is that of creating and managing IP-based services with efficient resource utilization in a scalable, flexible, and automatic way. In this paper, we present the Autonomic Service Architecture (ASA), a uniform framework for automated management of both Internet services and their underlying network resources. ASA ensures the delivery of services according to specific service level agreements (SLAs) between customers and service providers. As an illustrative example, ASA is applied to the management of DiffServ/MPLS networks, where we propose an autonomic bandwidth sharing scheme. With the proposed scheme, the bandwidth allocated for each SLA can be automatically adjusted according to the measured traffic load and under policy control for efficient resource utilization, while SLA compliance over the network is always guaranteed.