An Approach to Overcome the Complexity of Network Management Situations by Mashments

Abstract

The work performed by network administrators to address sudden, dynamic, heterogeneous, and time specific situations that happen in the network management domain is complex. In this paper, we introduce an approach that allows network administrators to overcome the complexity of handling these network management situations (called NMSits). The approach is made up of Mashments that are special mashups used to cope with NMSits, the process to develop and execute Mashments, and the Mashment Maker that supports such model and process. We use IT Service Management metrics to evaluate our approach, measuring the complexity of facing, with and without the Maker, a specific NMSit that occurs in several networks based on the Software Defined Networking paradigm. The evaluation results demonstrate that the complexity decreases when network administrators use our approach to handle NMSits.

A Systematic Literature Review on Military Software Defined Networks

“…In military networks running SDN, these applications can simplify both operational and administrative tasks in the network. This includes simplifying the management operations such as applying monitoring to network elements [59], but it can also be used in other contexts such as routing network traffic in power grids on a military base [61], or tracking moving base-stations in vehicles [63]. However, the articles that are reviewed in this sections do not apply directly to the military domain, but include general SDN applications that have been identified by the corresponding authors as adoptable to the military domain.…”

Towards automated composition of convergent services: A survey

“…As an evolution on using mashups for network management arose the concept of mashments [13] [14]. Mashments are solutions based on the Situation Management (SM) discipline and the mashup technology that aim to facilitate the work of network administrators when facing unexpected, heterogeneous, and dynamic situations.…”

“…Several approaches have appeared to fully automate the composition of services available in the Web from both academia [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] and industry [15] [16]. Similarly, some research has revolved around fully automation of communication service composition, coming mainly from European Projects [17] [18].…”