Networks cannot be managed without management plane communications among
geographically distributed network devices and control agents. Unfortunately, the …

The tremendous growth in ubiquity and diversity of wireless networks render the exploitation
of highly heterogeneous next generation networks more challenging. This complexity is …

IP networking is a spectacular success, catalyzing the diffusion of data networking across
academic institutions, governments, businesses, and homes worldwide. Yet, despite the …

Centralised network management platforms suffer from an information processing bottleneck
which establishes a trade-off between the size of a network and the precision with which it …

Over the past decade the research community has been actively investigating how network
management systems can be developed to achieve the flexibility and adaptability required …

Policies can be seen as plans of an organization to achieve its objectives. A policy is a
persistent specification of an objective to be achieved or a set of actions to be performed in …

Managing heterogeneous network systems is a difficult task because each of these networks
has its own curious management system. These networks usually are constructed on …

As communications networks become increasingly dynamic, heterogeneous, less reliable,
and larger in scale, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to effectively manage these …

SHAMAN is a framework for hierarchical management of networks with SNMP that provides
flexible and dynamic network management by permitting distribution of control and …

Over the past few years, network management has steadily evolved from a centralized
model, where all the management processing takes place on a single network management …