Decentralized In-Network Management for the Future Internet

Abstract

In-network management (INM) is a new paradigm forthe management of the future Internet that is based on the principles of decentralization and self-organization. Its goal is to overcome the limitations of traditional network management and to achieve scalable and robust management systems with low complexity for large-scale, dynamic network environments.In this paper, we describe a framework for INM that provides a systematic approach to the embedding of management algorithms within the elements of a communication networks. In addition, we demonstrate the benefits of decentralized management in the context of two key management functions, namely real-time monitoring and event handling.Index Terms-Network management, decentralized management algorithms.

Supporting Unified Distributed Management and Autonomic Decisions: Design, Implementation and Deployment

“…The guiding principles for achieving this goal are the decentralization and self-organization. In order to achieve these goals, a number of functional requirements have been proposed [42], and we identified the most important in a distributed management communication infrastructure: The role of a unified distributed network management is to integrate functionalities i.e., bootstrapping, discovery, exchange of management information and autonomic path decisions into the managed devices in a distributed network for wired and wireless scenarios.…”