Building a Standard Measurement Platform

Network management is achieved through a large number of disparate solutions for different technologies and parts of the end-to-end network. Gaining an overall view, and especially predicting the impact on a service user, is difficult. Recently, a number of proprietary platforms have emerged to conduct end-to-end testing from user premises; however, these are limited in scale, interoperability, and the ability to compare like-for-like results. In this article we show that these platforms share similar architectures and can benefit from the standardization of key interfaces, test definitions, information model, and protocols. We take the SamKnows platform as a use case and propose an evolution from its current proprietary protocols to standardized protocols and tests. In particular, we propose to use extensions of the IETF's IPFIX and NETCONF/YANG in the platform. Standardization will allow measurement capabilities to be included on many more network elements and user devices, providing a much more comprehensive view of user experience and enabling problems and performance bottlenecks to be identified and addressed.Publicad

EMANICS Large scale Management Interim Report

Management performance evaluation means assessment of scalability, complexity, ac- curacy, throughput, delays and resource consumptions.This deliverable repor ts the main scientific results obtained in work-package 7 of the Emanics NoE. These activities star ted in July 2007 as a result of an open call for proposals and addressed three main topics: the analysis of network management trace collections, the distributed and scalable security monitoring and finally a new configuration paradigm based on voluntar y cooperation. The repor ted content has been also the subject of submissions to several outstanding scientific conferences

Deliverable D6.1 - Open source support & joint software development interim report

Open Source support and coherent joint software development is a very important initia-tive for ensuring strong integration, network survivability and transfer of technology de-veloped within the network. In the management community, many Open Source com-ponents have been produced over the years, some of them being widely used today for several purposes. Recent evolutions in management and networking technologies how-ever did slow the use of these very valuable software components and the rhythm of new productions has decreased drastically. From the very beginning, EMANICS part-ners did recognize the need to support the Open Source initiatives in the area of man-agement to foster again their use and acceptance on large scale. This document is an interim report of the activity undertaken in work-package 6 for in-creasing the availability, visibility and acceptance of Open Source software in the area of device, network and service management. It describes (1) the efforts made in collect-ing data on available software, making this data available to the public in an homoge-neous and open way and (2) the efforts supported by EMANICS on the development and/or extensions towards broader acceptance and dissemination of Open Source components that emerge from the EMANICS community

D0.8 : Quaterly Management Report 8

This document is the eigths management report issued by the IST-FP6 EMANICS project. The report covers the period of the project from October 1st, 2007 to December 31th, 2007

Deliverable D7.2 - Final report on benchmarking of management protocols

This deliverable summarizes key research results obtained during the second phase of the WP7 activities. The research activities addressed the performance evaluation of management frameworks (SNMP and JMX). For these management frameworks, the current work presents qualitative and quantitative requirements associated to the management task. The SNMP framework is analysed with respect to a set of traces gathered from an operational network. The JMX framework is analysed based on synthetic data obtained from a process injection driven activity

EMANICS Open Source Support and Joint Software Development Intermi Report

Open Source suppor t, coherent joint software development and packaging is a ver y im- por tant initiative for ensuring strong integration, network sur vivability and transfer of tech- nology developed within the network. In the management community, many Open Source components have been produced over the years, some of them being widely used to- day for several pur poses. Recent evolutions in management and networking technologies however did slow the use of these ver y valuable software components and the rhythm of new productions has decreased drastically. From the ver y beginning, EMANICS par tners did recognize the need to suppor t the Open Source initiatives in the area of management to foster their use and acceptance on large scale. In June 2007, two calls have been issued to the EMANICS community: one for software development and one for Open Source software packaging. Four initiatives have been selected in the first call : SMIng suppor t in LibSMI, P2PFastSS, ISMS implementation and VoIPbots. Two proposals have been selected in the packaging par t: Open Diameter pack- aging and NDPMon distribution standardization and integration in standard distributions. In addition, the work on Management software categorisation, annotation and referencing did continue. This repor t provides the details of the two calls that have been issued since June 2007 and for ever y selected project, a detailed description of the software package together with the achievements made so far are presented. The work on the software inventor y database is also repor ted in this document. A revised version of this document is expected to be provided at the end of phase 2 of EMANICS in December 2008

D0.11 : Quarterly Management Report 11

This document is the eleventh management report issued by the IST-FP6 EMANICS project. The report covers the period of the project from July 1st, 2008 to September 30th, 2008

Joint Programme of Activities (month 25-42) for the EMANICS Network of Excellence

The EMANICS network aims at shaping the European research in the area of device, network and service management to provide the necessary coordination and integration so as to enable the participants, while maintaining and enhancing their excellence in their respective field, to contribute in a unified way to the design of management solutions covering all of the challenges arising in this field. As a community of excellence, the network is designed to disseminate its knowledge. Therefore, the specific research actions are complemented by common teaching platforms such as distributed virtual laboratories, shared repositories of measurement data and shared teaching materials. Virtual laboratories and shared data repositories will enable participants to validate new concepts and algorithms in many different scenarios with affordable costs. Shared teaching materials and mobility of teachers will be the basis to improve the education of students in this field. Online tutorials provided through a central information access point will help operators to get acquainted to new technologies and approaches and open source reference implementations will help to transfer research results into industrial products. Finally, standardization, key to fostering the acceptance and ensuring long term survivability of the European technologies in the area of network and service management is of particular importance to the network of excellence