Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Internal/NetworkManagement/Workingdocuments

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Nov 1, 2010, 8:49:14 PM (13 years ago)

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byrav

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Initial work package writeup (1.txt)

Internal/NetworkManagement/Workingdocuments

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+The goal of the management team involves three high level goals.
+
+1. Design of an API for the management / control plane of the network. Design of
+   appropriate access control for various management functions. (Banerjee, UW-Madison + others???)
+   Why? A lot of new and different components are being proposed in the MobilityFirst
+   architecture. They include a new fast and scalable naming service, inherent support
+   for multi-path routing, content caching through a store and forward architecture,
+   and many others. Any management function requires better visibility into these
+   new constructs and an efficient API for the management / control plane would be
+   needed for this.
+   The API specification needs to come with some way of presenting access control.
+   Maybe there are secure credentials that need to be shared and made available to
+   different management agents in the network that needs to be designed.
+
+   This is particularly important in considering management issues that span
+   multiple domains of administrative control, e.g., across enterprises, across
+   paths through multiple ISPs, etc. There are economic issues that will come into
+   this design.
+
+2. Exploration of separation between the control and management planes. (???)
+   < MORLEY, JIM - DO YOU WANT TO FILL THIS IN>
+
+3. Client support for management tasks. (Banerjee, UW-Madison)
+   Why? Mobility is going to be a key part of this future Internet. Mobile devices,
+   therefore, are first class citizens in this network. A challenge of an infrastructure-only
+   management structure is that they provide insufficient visibility into performance
+   problems observed at the clients. However, if the clients are able and willing to
+   participate in management tasks, that can provide unique vantage points into the
+   network's overall performance leading to better manageability of the network.
+
+
+Research prototypes, demos, and deliverables:
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+1.
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+2.
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+3. A system for client assisted management implemented on mobile phones. We will present
+   an infrastructure tied into visual map-based interface that shows network performance
+   across a wide-area wireless environment. Various performance issues will be automatically
+   identified in this system that are not possible to recognize without the client-assisted
+   management part.
+
+   The system will include a client-side (Android/iPhone/Windows Mobile) software and associated
+   cloud based services.