MGMS/GML - towards a new policy specification framework for multicast group integrity

Building and implementing policies in autonomous and autonomic systems using MaCMAS

“…More recently, PBM has become extremely popular within the telecommunications industry, for next generation networking, with many vendors announcing plans and introducing PBM-based products. This is driven by the fact that policy has been recognized as a solution for managing complexity, and for guiding the behavior of a network or distributed system through high-level useroriented abstractions [16]. A PBM tool may also reduce the complexity of product and system management by providing a uniform cross-product policy definition and management infrastructure [4].…”

Collaborative streaming in heterogeneous and dynamic scenarios

“…Additionally, our architecture defines for each session control action of a particular role whether the association service should change the streaming state of a group or open a new association. Other policy-specification techniques are discussed in [3].…”

“…The RTP/I media data packets themselves carry session state and events, making signaling scalable to larger groups, as well as to generic collaborative groupware. Group management aspects of collaborative streaming have been considered in architectures for collaborative groupware and for multicast conferencing [3].…”

Towards Formal Specification and Generation of Autonomic Policies

“…More recently, PBM has become extremely popular within the telecom industry, for next generation networking, with many vendors announcing plans and introducing products. This is driven by the fact that policy has been recognized as a solution to manage complexity, and to guide the behaviour of a network or distributed system through high-level user-oriented abstractions [18]. A policy-based management tool may also reduce the complexity of product and system management by providing uniform cross-product policy definition and management infrastructure [5].…”