Network Management and Control

✍ Scribed by Casimir S. Skrzypczak (auth.), Aaron Kershenbaum, Manu Malek, Mark Wall (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 433
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Like the 120 volt standard for electricity, the appearance of standards in network management heralds new opportunities for creativity and achievement. As one example, within the framework of these evolving standards, consider a system of local area networks connecting computing equipment from different vendors. A bridge 1qc. k:8 up because of a transient caused by a repeater failure. The result is a massive disconnecHon of virtual circuits. What is the role of the manager and the network management system in solving the problem? How does the vendor implement the solution? How does the user use it? What measurements should be made? How should they be displayed? How much of the diagnosis and correction should be automated? How does the solution change with different hardware and software? In the IEEE Communications Magazine, I recently reported a timely illustration in the area of problems in fault management. At the workshop hotel, "I was waiting for a room assignment at the reception desk, when my attendant left the counter for a moment. Upon returning, he took one look at his screen and whined an accusatory question at everyone in sight, 'Who logged out my terminal?' Who indeed! It wasn't any of us. It was the system.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Network Management Alternatives for the Future....Pages 3-5
Recent FCC Policies and Network Management....Pages 7-22
Technology Impacting Network Management....Pages 23-29
Integrated Network Management....Pages 31-57
Open Systems Managment Standards....Pages 59-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Implementing Integrated Monitoring Systems for Heterogeneous Networks....Pages 69-79
Implementing Network Management in a Multi-Vendor Environment — A User Perspective....Pages 81-88
Network Management Policies: What Aims and How to Pursue Them....Pages 89-100
Data Base Management for an Integrated Network Management System: Requirements/Test/Evaluation....Pages 101-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Service Performance Requirements in the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (A T M) Environment....Pages 117-128
Extensibility of an Enterprise Management Director....Pages 129-141
Network Management for the PBX Market....Pages 143-151
X.25 Pad, Concentrator and Gateway Network Management Towards a UNMA Environment....Pages 153-161
Control and Management of Sonet Based Fiber Networks....Pages 163-173
Defense Data Network Fault Isolation System....Pages 175-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-188
Applying Artificial Intelligence Techniques to the Management of Heterogeneous Networks....Pages 189-200
The Integration of Human and Machine Intelligence in Network Management and Control....Pages 201-207
Genesis, A Real-Time Expert System for Network Control....Pages 209-220
An Expert System for Diagnosing Performance Problems in SNA Networks....Pages 221-247
Applications of Expert Systems to Network Surveillance....Pages 249-262
Front Matter....Pages 187-188
NORA: An Intelligent Advisor for Traffic Network Management....Pages 263-274
Front Matter....Pages 275-276
Dynamic Access Capacity Management in a Multiservice Packet-Mode Environment....Pages 277-285
Fault Isolation in Communication Networks with Local Directed Graphs....Pages 287-303
Minimal Length Test Sequences for Protocol Conformance....Pages 305-318
On the Design of Observers for Fault Detection in Communication Networks....Pages 319-338
The Application of the Partition Function in “Revenue-Oriented” Performance Analysis for Network Management....Pages 339-349
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
Session Chairman Report on the “Dynamic Routing” Session....Pages 353-356
Network Routing Evolution....Pages 357-367
Advanced Routing Techniques Using Advanced Intelligent Network Functional Components and Data Base Controls....Pages 369-375
Control of Multi-Domain Networks....Pages 377-387
PARS: A Predictive Access-Control and Routing Strategy for Real-Time Control of Telecommunication Networks....Pages 389-413
Stochastic Integrals and the Calculation of Performance in Dynamic Control/State Dependent Routing Networks....Pages 415-424
Front Matter....Pages 425-425
Network Management User Interfaces....Pages 427-430
Network Management Software and User Interfaces: Issues and Approaches....Pages 431-439
Back Matter....Pages 441-448

✦ Subjects

Electrical Engineering; Computer Communication Networks