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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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.