| Scalable Management |
WP7 PHASE NUMBERPhase 1MotivationAlmost 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:
Tasks
PartnersThe following EMANICS partners are involved in this work package:
DeliverablesThe deliverables produced by this workpackage can be found in the 'Documents' section of the EMANICS web site.Phase 2Objectives
The objective of this second phase is twofold: firstly, the work package will foster high quality
Description of work
T7.1: Fault, Configuration, and Security operation in large scale environments
T7.2: Modelling and benchmarking
Organisation of the work-package: 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.
Objectives
In the final year, the objective of the work package is the collaborative research between the partners in the field of large scale management with the goal to develop, evaluate and report new approaches and solutions in the area.
Description of work
Scalability is one of the major issues in network management. Many management solutions that are available for small networks can not be easily applied to networks consisting of hundreds or thousands of communication entities. The research activities in this work package focus on the security, configuration and monitoring in large-scale environments. Work is structured around the following two tasks (with possible extensions if required): T7.1: Security in large-scale environments Activities in this task address the design, implementation and evaluation of new techniques to manage the security in large-scale environments, comprising the detection of intrusions and attack attempts, the secure access to resources, etc. T7.2: Monitoring and configuration in large-scale environments Large-scale networks pose several challenges for management, for example the large amount of traffic transported in such networks, the large and variable number of participating network entities and involved parties, etc. Activities in this task will follow different approaches such as distribution and virtualization to allow the effective monitoring and configuration under such conditions. Organisation of the work-package: The work to be addressed in the two themes of WP7 will be organized on the result of an open call for proposals that was issued at the end of the previous year. 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 an in-depth presentation of the activity achievements. Reporting is done internally every 3 months by the selected activities. An interim report (D7.5) describing the current activity achievements will be delivered in mid 2009, followed by a conclusive report at the end of the year (D7.6).
Active projects during 2009
Extended Scalable Management of Biometric devices (BioScale II) Biometric devices emerged to a mature technology and begin to fulfil its promises for physical access control and login to computers. But with today’s device specific software provided by manufacturers, medium and large scale deployments of biometric devices is unfeasible. One of the main challenges of such large scale deployment projects is a scalable distribution system for biometric templates. The objective of the BioScale I and II activity is the development of a scalable management approach for biometric devices.Flow-based Monitoring and Anomaly Detection (FMAD) The spread of Gbps networks and the constantly increasing amount of traffic transported by such networks has drawn the attention to scalability aspects of the management of such networks, leading to an interest in flow-based techniques for analysis and anomaly detection in large and/or fast networks. In this activity, we have developed and evaluated several techniques and approaches that allow characterizing and analyzing flow data collected in such large-scale, resp. high-speed networks.Management of large MANETs (MaMANET) Mobile ad-hoc networks will play a vital role in future mobile networks. This technique, however, raises new challenges with respect to the management of such a system. Current management approaches address only some of the aspects identified in that field. Thus, this project addresses the following topics that have been the areas of interest in the MaMANET activity: 1)requirements analysis; 2) define a comprehensive management architecture for MANETs; 3) detailed part 1: propose service search; 4) detailed part 2: resource management of disruption tolerant networksSecurity Management Infrastructure (SeMI) An end-to-end secure communication in an inter-domain and heterogeneous environment is a key yet complex factor. One of the most important management challenges is to assure a predefined security level over multi provider environments with dedicated communication infrastructures, security mechanisms, processes and policies. Thus, it is necessary to overcome management islands, mostly realized by commercial providers, and to work towards a common security management infrastructure (SMI) to get a common understanding of the security services and mechanisms to realize the requested level of security.Virtualization Monitoring (VirtMon)
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.
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