A survey of the distributed network management models and architectures: Assessment and challenges

Abstract

In this work, we'll strive to present a survey about the important traditional and modern telecommunication management network (TMN) on one hand; and information and communication technology (ICT) management on the other hand. In this review, we classify all the major networks and technology management systems known to date in order to provide guidelines for network management architectures design. This paper shows an assessment of the current technology management in terms of models, architectures and methods. This assessment allowed us to trace out their strengths and weaknesses according to the managing of the next generation networks. We are going to build a taxonomy based on three-criteria for all these technologies, especially the new ones. The main guidelines for the proposal of innovative architectures to be able to control the emerging networks of the 21st century requirements are addressed.