Enabling decentralised management through federation

Feeney, Kevin; Brennan, Rob; Keeney, John; Thomas, Hendrik; Lewis, David; Boran, Aidan; O’Sullivan, Declan

doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2010.07.006

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“…These capabilities are shared over a control layer built on XMPP (the eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) with peer HANs or other networks. Flexible federation, sharing policy definition and access control of the shared capabilities is enabled by a trusted federal relationship manager (FRM) service [3], which can form a decentralised federation management system by co-operating with other FRMs to establish secure fine-grained capability sharing channels. Network-level access controls, for example HAN firewall configuration, are automatically synthesized from the FRM relationships by a HAN Access Control (FANAC) agent [4] that automatically generates low-level access control device configurations, e.g.…”

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“…A prototype Federated Autonomic Network Access Control (FANAC) configuration agent [3] has been implemented and its high-level components are depicted in Figure 4. A FANAC agent manages, on behalf of the home user, the configuration of multiple NAC controls in the HAN and is modelled using an ontology.…”

Section: Federated Autonomic Network Access Control Subsystem (Fanac)mentioning

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Consumer-managed federated homes

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There are emerging opportunities for distributed, composite services, based on the combination of smart homes, networked consumer devices, third-party services and social, geographical or commercial collaborations. However, current home-automation technology tends to focus on the single-home solution, rather than enabling home users can securely share and easily manage the resources and services of their home area network. This article describes a new federated home architecture that addresses these needs, reports on prototyping to date and provides an overview of several important technologies for the next generation of federated homes. Our vision is to support a future of user-centric device and service sharing from home-to-home across the Internet, in a way that does not rely on centralised authority but supports a web of secure, peer-wise trusted relationships between consumers.

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“…type(this, V ar) ∧ hasContextT ypeInstantiation(this, type) ∧hasLocation(type, loc) ∧ isOwnLocation(loc, true) → isLocal(this, true) (1) Here, the type property defines the classical RDF type property for class membership. This rule retrieves the location of the ContextTypeInstantiation instance that is linked with the variables of a RIF rule and identifies the variable as local (denoted by isLocal) if these instantiations correspond with their own location (denoted by isOwnLocation).…”

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“…We define the term federation according to Feeney et al [1]: "A federation is considered to be a persistent organizational agreement, which enables multiple autonomous entities to share capabilities in a controlled way." A federation thus groups different organizations, consisting of multiple autonomous entities, to cooperate with each other by sharing capabilities (e.g., resources, information) with the goal of an improved management.…”

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“…Instead, several autonomic managers need to cooperate with each other in order to ensure end-to-end quality and cost optimized delivery of services. As illustrated in Figure 1, this cooperation is typically loosely coupled (e.g., the layered federation model of Feeney et al [1]). Autonomic managers from different administrative domains form a federation in which they work together for a specific service delivery scenario.…”

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A semantic context exchange process for the federated management of the future internet

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SUMMARYIn the Future Internet, federations are set up to cope with the stringent quality requirements of services. While a federated solution offers advantages in terms of scalability, it complicates the exchange of context (e.g., Quality of Service information of services) between federated nodes, as each node requires context to perform management tasks. In this article, we propose a context exchange process that automates the context communication between nodes. A scalable approach is proposed that is able to quickly react to local context updates, while maintaining a high level of expressivity to define relationships between federation partners. We distinguish between the context exchange inside an administrative domain, which focuses on scalability, and the context exchange between federation partners, which emphasizes the trust relationships between partners. In both cases, the process allows defining which context needs to be exchanged when and from where. Inside an administrative domain, a combination of RDF and SPARQL rules are used. This allows modeling the contextual requirements of management algorithms and automatically requesting remote context, only when it is necessary for the management algorithms to proceed. Between domains, an OWLbased approach is used, which allows describing the complex relationships between federation partners. Triggered by the intra-domain context exchange process, the contextual capabilities are communicated and refined through policies. Both type of processes are evaluated. The results show that they can infer which context is needed in a timely and scalable manner. As such, it outperforms approaches where context is broadcasted both in required bandwidth and end-to-end delay.

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Federated management of the Future Internet: status and challenges

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2012

Int J Network Mgmt

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SUMMARYThe Internet's original static services have been superseded by rich multimedia services with stringent end-to-end QoS requirements. Additionally, there has been a trend from simple applications offered by a single provider, towards service compositions, managed across the bounds of multiple domains. It is widely accepted that the end-to-end requirements of multimedia and composed services cannot be satisfied by the current Internet, which does not support inter-domain collaboration. The network federation paradigm was advanced to address these limitations. It envisions the automatic negotiation and management of dynamic agreements between network domains, allowing them to collaborate to achieve goals they cannot achieve alone. This article presents an overview of state of the art research in the area of federated network management. Specifically, existing definitions are compared and aligned. Moreover, the most important efforts towards an architecture for a federated Future Internet are discussed. Finally, we have identified several important research challenges that need to be tackled before the federated Future Internet vision can be fully achieved. For each of these challenges, existing research efforts are surveyed and remaining open issues identified.

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Enabling decentralised management through federation

Cited by 13 publications

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Consumer-managed federated homes

Consumer-managed federated homes

A semantic context exchange process for the federated management of the future internet

Federated management of the Future Internet: status and challenges

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