Network Management and Control: Volume 2

Three speakers at the Second Workshop on Network Management and Control nostalgically remembered the INTEROP Conference at which SNMP was able to interface even to CD players and toasters. We agreed this was indeed a major step forward in standards, but wondered if anyone noticed whether the toast was burned, let alone, would want to eat it. The assurance of the correct operation of practical systems under difficult environments emerged as the dominant theme of the workshop with growth, interoperability, performance, and scalability as the primary sub-themes. Perhaps this thrust is un surprising, since about half the 100 or so attendees were from industry, with a strong contingency of users. Indeed the technical program co-chairs, Shivendra Panwar of Polytechnic and Walter Johnston of NYNEX, took as their assignment the coverage of real problems and opportunities in industry. Nevertheless we take it as a real indication of progress in the field that the community is beginning to take for granted the availability of standards and even the ability to detect physical, link, and network-level faults and is now expecting diagnostics at higher levels as well as system-wide solutions.

Table of Contents:
I. Perspectives on Network Management.- and Overview.- The Vision for Networks and their Management.- Global Area Network Management.- Managing the NREN: Issues in Moving Towards a Global Distributed Environment.- II. Network Management for Security and Reliability.- Integrated State and Alarm Monitoring Across Heterogeneous Networks Using OSI Standards and Object-Oriented Techniques.- Coverage Modeling for the Design of Network Management Procedures.- Fault Diagnosis of Network Connectivity Problems by Probabilistic Reasoning.- Keeping Authentication and Key Exchange Alive in Communication Networks.- Security Architecture in the UMTS Network.- Security Management - An Overview to Reliable Authentication Procedures for Automatic Debiting Systems in RTI/IVHS Environments.- III. Management of High-Speed Digital Networks.- Adding Network Management Capabilities to an Interexchange Carrier’s Operations Environment for Switched Multi-megabit Data Service.- Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation, Routing, and Access Control in ATM Networks.- A Modeling Approach for the Performance Management of High Speed Networks.- Service Management and Connection Identification in Shared Medium Access Networks.- Allocation of End-to-end Delay Objectives for Networks Supporting SMDS.- IV. Network Management Protocols.- Factors in Performance Optimization of OSI Management Systems.- Incorporating Relationships into OSI Management Information.- Semantic Modeling of Managed Information.- Distributed Information Repository for Supporting Integrated Network Management.- Tree Protocol for Supporting Broadband Multipoint, Multichannel Connections.- Broadband UNI Signaling Techniques.- Connection Control Protocols in Broadband Networks.- Management of Distributed Service Networks: Shared Tele-Publishingvia ISDN-IBC in Europe.- V. Implementations of Advanced Technology in Network Management.- and Overview.- On Implementing a Protocol Independent MIB.- The Design and Implementation of an Event Handling Mechanism.- Advanced Operations System for Mobile Communications Network.- IDSS-COME, Intelligent Decision Support System for Network Control, Management, and Engineering.- A Domain-Oriented Expert System Shell for Telecommunication Network Alarm Correlation.- An Alarm Correlation System for Heterogeneous Networks.- RREACT: A Distributed Network Restoration Protocol for Rapid Restoration of Active Communication Trunks.- VI. Decision Support Systems for Planning and Performance.- and Overview.- Experience on Design and Implementation of a Computing Platform for Telecommunication Management Networks.- An Adaptive Information Dispersal Algorithm for Time-Critical Reliable Communications.- Network Management and Network Design I.- A Fuzzy Design Procedure for Long-Term Network Planning.- A Fuzzy Logic Representation of Knowledge for Detecting/Correcting Network Performance Deficiencies.- Link Set Sizing for Networks Supporting SMDS.- Definition and Evaluation of an Adaptive Performance Management Strategy for a Hybrid TDM Network with Multiple Isochronous Traffic Classes.