WP7 PHASE NUMBER
Phase 1
Motivation
Almost every research group, industrial forum or standardization group in the discipline of network and systems management gets, at some point in time, confronted with scalability issues. Over the last decade this aspect of management was addressed in an unstructured way; each management framework or algorithm proposed its own definition of scalability and performed some specific, home-brewed performance evaluations. Although this approach was understandable in the early days of management, it does not provide a sufficient basis to compare the scalability aspects of different frameworks and algorithms. This situation is no longer viable since multiple approaches compete and scalability has become one, of if not the major issue in management. As the database community did a couple of years ago, the network and service management community needs to work together to define a common understanding of scalability, and provide uniform definitions and evaluation criteria to ensure solid and sustained progress on this facet of management research.
Objectives
The objectives of this work package are to:
- Collect performance and scalability data on the various management related challenges within the “Broadband for all” theme
- Provide access to performance data of different management frameworks
- Offer test beds for third parties to evaluate the performance of their management frameworks.
Tasks
- T7.1 : Collect scalability requirements within the management plane. Such collection will be achieved through interaction with industry at theta-days, at dedicated workshops and in the context of standardization events. This collection can be complemented by the analysis of parameters and traces of real systems (web server logs, MIBs, traces of management data etc.)
- T7.2: Define a common management benchmarking methodology. This methodology will be evaluated within multiple application scenarios and will address all layers of the management plane (device, network, service and business management). To this end common metrics and procedures to measure such metrics will be identified. A potential outcome of this work could be an extension of the IPPM framework, which is currently standardized within the IETF. The virtual lab of EMANICS will used as far as appropriate to make it available to all NoE participants
- T7.3: Perform benchmarking tests on specific management environments and make the benchmarking data available to the community. This work package will generate the data while their publication will be done through work package 2
Partners
The following EMANICS partners are involved in this work package:
Deliverables
The deliverables produced by this workpackage can be found in the 'Documents' section of the EMANICS web site.
Phase 2
Objectives
The objective of this second phase is twofold: firstly, the work package will foster high quality
work on producing reports reflecting the current state of the art in the identified work directions.
Secondly, mutual and multilateral interactions among the partners will be strongly encouraged
and a more flexible and decentralized working framework will be provided.
Description of work
Large scale management concerns all the five functional areas of network management
(FCAPS). WP7 will address only three of these areas: security, fault and configuration, the other
two being addressed in WP8 and WP9. The work-package is structured among two tasks :
T7.1: Fault, Configuration, and Security operation in large scale environments
Design, model and evaluate algorithms in the three functional areas to cope with large scale
systems. The key expected outcomes are:
1. To maintain a public inventory and complete high quality state of the art on recent research
outcomes related to fault, configuration, and security operation in large scale network
management.
2. To provide architectural and functional patterns for management frameworks suited in large
scale analysis.
T7.2: Modelling and benchmarking
Building up on results from the first phase of WP7, this task will:
1. Maintain state of the art documents on methodologies, approaches, results, and research
challenges for benchmarking management frameworks.
2. Produce both analytical and empirical models of management behaviours.
3. Evolve towards effective joint benchmarking campaigns for existing technologies over
various support frameworks.
Organisation of the work-package:
The work to be addressed in the two themes of WP7 will be organized on a open competitive
proposal-based mechanism. Call for collaborative proposals will be launched in two steps.
Cooperative proposals including at least two partners will be selected by the work-package
leader together with the Execom. Selected proposals will provide for delivery both extensive
state of the art on the theme and an in depth presentation of the activity achievements.
Reporting is done internally every 3 months by the selected activities. An oral presentation at the
WP meetings is done every 6 months. Every work-package partner commits to participate to all
WP meetings and to participate in at least one proposal.
Partners
The following EMANICS partners are involved in this work package:
Deliverables
The deliverables produced by this workpackage can be found in the 'Documents' section of the EMANICS web site.
