Federation Lifecycle Management Incorporating Coordination of Bio-inspired Self-management Processes
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B.Meskill, S. Balasubramaniam, R. Brennan, K. Feeney, B.Jennings, Federation Lifecycle Management Incorporating Coordination of Bio-inspired Self-management Processes, Journal of Network and Systems Management, 2013, 650 676Download Item:
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Abstract:
As it has evolved, the Internet has had to support a broadening range of
networking technologies, business models and user interaction modes. Researchers and
industry practitioners have realised that this trend necessitates a fundamental rethink-
ing of approaches to network and service management. This has spurred signi cant
research e orts towards developing autonomic network management solutions incor-
porating distributed self-management processes inspired by biological systems. Whilst
signi cant advances have been made, most solutions focus on management of single
network domains and the optimisation of speci c management or control processes
therein. In this paper we argue that a networking infrastructure providing a myriad
of loosely coupled services must inherently support federation of network domains and
facilitate coordination of the operation of various management processes for mutual
bene t. To this end, we outline a framework for federated management that facilitates
the coordination of the behaviour of bio-inspired management processes. Using a case
study relating to distribution of IPTV content, we describe how Federal Relationship
Managers realising our layered model of management federations can communicate to
manage service provision across multiple application/storage/network providers. We
outline an illustrative example in which storage providers are dynamically added to a
federation to accommodate demand spikes, with appropriate content being migrated
to those providers servers under control of a bio-inspired replication process.
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Author: FEENEY, KEVIN; BRENNAN, ROB
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Network Management, FederationSubject (TCD):
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