Project 1: Next-Generation Network Management

• The Next Generation Network (NGN) need to support various multimedia applications, with different QoS requirements.

• The Internet is evolving into an extremely complex system, which cannot feasibly be managed by human operators.

• Efforts are being made in various areas, e.g., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Application-Oriented Networking (AON), and autonomic computing, for the achievement of a scalable and self-managed service delivery framework.

• SOA, AON, and autonomic computing are not developed in a coordinated manner for optimal resource utilization and QoS performance.

Autonomic Service Management Framework

We propose an Autonomic Service Management Framework (ASMF), based on a holistic view of SOA, AON, and autonomic computing.

• In ASF, everything is a service: the service could be directly provided by physical computing or networking resources, or virtually provisioned by combining other services.

• Each service is encapsulated into a Web service component installed with optional interface and manageability interface.

• The autonomic application-enabling fabric is the core functional layer of the ASMF, which is responsible for constructing services or applications according to the SOA methodology, and managing the involved Web service components in an autonomic manner.

• In ASMF, the IP transport network is enhanced to AON to provide an efficient messaging backbone.