The benefits of CORBA-based network management

Haggerty, Paul; Seetharaman, Krishnan

doi:10.1145/286238.286250

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“…It has been proposed to adopt CORBA or Java RMI-based interfaces [4] to access data. The corresponding objects would retrieve data (via SNMP) and add extra information like physical location in the network or the relationship with other devices.…”

Section: A Academic Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Large scale monitoring of home routers

Costas-Rodriguez

Martinez-Alvarez

González-Castaño

et al. 2009

2009 IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications

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This paper describes our experience with concurrent asynchronous monitoring of large populations of end-user broadband-access routers.Despite of the wealth of research in large-scale monitoring, which assumes that it is possible to inquiry individual nodes efficiently, end-user access routers usually have manual legacy interfaces, either HTTP-or telnet-oriented. They seldom offer a direct interface to other programs. Moreover, the uptime of end-user routers is unpredictable. For all these reasons, commercial large-scale monitoring tools such as SNMP collectors are useless.This research is motivated by the fact that some telecommunications operators do not let end-users buy their routers in the consumer electronics market. Instead, they rent the routers and maintain them under long-term contracts. By monitoring line signal-to-noise ratio, transmission and reception power, memory usage or uptime, the operators can predict many types of router failures. In any case, this information may feed their data warehouses for future use. In our field tests we monitored the routers of the Spanish ISP and VoIP operator Comunitel (www.comunitel.es). With our approach, a full monitoring cycle of 22,300 such routers took less than five minutes.

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Section: A Academic Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Large scale monitoring of home routers

Costas-Rodriguez

Martinez-Alvarez

González-Castaño

et al. 2009

2009 IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications

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“…The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) from Object Management Group (OMG) has been widely considered as the choice architecture for the next generation of network management [1], [2]. Until now, most research has focused on using CORBA to integrate incompatible legacy network management systems such as SNMP and CMIP [11], and the definition of specific CORBA services (e.g.…”

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Using CORBA’s Advanced Services to Enhance the Integrity of QoS Management Programmable Networks

Marshall

2002

Management of Multimedia on the Internet

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Abstract. The development of wideband network services and the new network infrastructures to support them have placed much more requirements on current network management systems. Issues such as scalability, integrity and interoperability have become more important. Existing management systems are not flexible enough to support the provision of Quality of Service (QoS) in these dynamic environments. The concept of Programmable Networks has been proposed to address these requirements. Within this framework, CORBA is regarded as a middleware technology that can enable interoperation among the distributed entities founds in Programmable Networks. By using the basic CORBA environment in a heterogeneous network environment, a network manager is able to control remote Network Elements (NEs) in the same way it controls its local resources. Using this approach both the flexibility and intelligence of the overall network management can be improved. This paper proposes the use of two advanced features of CORBA to enhance the QoS management in a Programmable Network environment. The Transaction Service can be used to manage a set of tasks, whenever the management of elements in a network is correlated; and the Concurrency Service can be used to coordinate multiple accesses on the same network resources. It is also shown in this paper that proper use of CORBA can largely reduce the development and administration of network management applications.

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“…7) MESIS DPE may interwork with any other MASIF-compliant MA DPE via the MASIFBridge (MASIF interoperability). The first interoperability functionality allows MESIS agents to act as CORBA clients, for example, to control legacy network components via CORBA interfaces [5], [6], to exploit services and facilities provided by any CORBA DPE (e.g., Transactions, Collection, and Trader Object Services [30]), and to invoke CORBA-compliant application components [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

An integrated management environment for network resources and services

Bellavista

Corradi

Stefanelli

2000

IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun.

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Abstract-Technological and human factors have contributed to increase the complexity of the network management problem. Heterogeneity and globalization of network resources, on one hand, have increased user expectations for flexible and easy-to-use environments; on the other hand, they have suggested entirely novel ways to face the management problem. Several research efforts recognize the need for integrated solutions to manage both network resources and services in open, global, and untrusted environments. In addition, these solutions should permit the coexistence of different management models and should interoperate with legacy systems. In the paper, we define a general architecture based on a distributed processing environment (DPE) that offers a large set of facilities to the application level. We have developed the MESIS management environment shaped after the above architecture and its DPE facilities with the mobile agents technology. MESIS handles, in a uniform way, both resources and services, and focuses on two crucial properties: interoperability to overcome heterogeneity, and security to grant users safe and protected operations. The Agent Interoperability Facility supports compliance with CORBA-based management systems and with MASIF agent platforms. The Agent Security Facility provides authentication, integrity, privacy, authorization, and secure interoperation with CORBA systems.

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The benefits of CORBA-based network management

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Large scale monitoring of home routers

Large scale monitoring of home routers

Using CORBA’s Advanced Services to Enhance the Integrity of QoS Management Programmable Networks

An integrated management environment for network resources and services

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