Event handling in clean-slate Future Internet management

Abstract

Event handling is a management mechanism that provides means for the network to react on changes in the network conditions or performance. In the construction of a clean-slate management architecture, we consider this as a main building block. This paper proposes a fully distributed event distribution in a fully distributed environment: differently from existing works, no configuration is required in advance, and yet nodes have guarantee that events are delivered and that certain delivery objectives are respected. The contributions of this paper are: a generic system model for event handling and an analysis of event distribution mechanisms with respect to timeliness and traffic metrics. The paper describes and discusses in detail the results based on simulations and provides guidelines for management functions of the Future Internet.

Evaluation of an information service for enhanced multiaccess media delivery

“…Event/notification systems presented in [16,17], which introduce mechanisms on how to implement such systems, along with the evaluated event generation cases are very encouraging and complementary to our effort in defining TRG together with DCMF as a specialized notification system for events which originate from the entire protocol stack. Event and notification system like TRG functionality are needed also for the future Internet solution like presented in [14] As mentioned, the TRG functionality approach is close to the 802.21 [5] approach. The scope of the IEEE 802.21 standard is to develop a mechanism that provides link layer intelligence and other related network information to upper layers to optimize handovers between heterogeneous IEEE 802 systems and facilitates handovers between IEEE 802 and cellular systems.…”