{"title":"On the manipulability of voting systems: application to multi-operator networks","authors":"F. Durand, F. Mathieu, L. Noirie","doi":"10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727849","url":null,"abstract":"Internet is a large-scale and highly competitive economic ecosystem. In order to make fair decisions, while preventing the economic actors from manipulating the natural outcome of the decision process, game theory is a natural framework, and voting systems represent an interesting alternative that, to our knowledge, has not yet being considered. They allow competing entities to decide among different options. In this paper, we investigate their use for end-to-end path selection in multi-operator networks, analyzing their manipulability by tactical voting and their economic efficiency.We show that Instant Runoff Voting is much more efficient and resistant to tactical voting than the natural system which tries to get the economic optimum.","PeriodicalId":410168,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2013)","volume":"218 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121559891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating an online configuration checker with existing management systems: Application to CIM/WBEM environments","authors":"Ludi Akue, E. Lavinal, T. Desprats, M. Sibilla","doi":"10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727855","url":null,"abstract":"Runtime configuration validation is a critical requirement if we are to build reliable self-adaptive management systems. This paper presents a generic framework that includes a runtime configuration checker built upon a high-level language dedicated to the specification of configurations and validity constraints. In addition, we describe a methodology for using this framework and integrating the configuration checker with existing management systems. In particular, we show how we use the framework to enrich a CIM/WBEM management environment with automatic runtime configuration validation against a defined set of constraints guarding structural correctness and service behavior conformance. Our experiments with management models conforming to the CIM Virtual System profile show viable results demonstrating the feasibility of our approach.","PeriodicalId":410168,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2013)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127482815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lightweight link dimensioning using sFlow sampling","authors":"R. Schmidt, R. Sadre, A. Sperotto, A. Pras","doi":"10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727827","url":null,"abstract":"Operators use link dimensioning to provision network links. In practice, traffic averages are obtained via SNMP are used to roughly estimate required capacity. More accurate solutions often require traffic statistics easily obtained from packet captures, e.g. variance. However, packet capturing may not be trivial in high-speed links. Aiming scalability, operators often deploy packet sampling on monitoring, but little is known how it affects link dimensioning. In this paper we assess the feasibility of lightweight link dimensioning using sFlow, which is a widely-deployed traffic monitoring tool. We implement sFlow sampling algorithm and use a previously proposed and validated dimensioning formula that needs traffic variance.We validate our approach using packet captures from real networks. Results show that the proposed procedure is successful for a range of sampling rates and that, due to randomness of sampling algorithm, the error introduced by scaling the traffic variance yields more conservative results that cope with short-term traffic fluctuations.","PeriodicalId":410168,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2013)","volume":"187 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121924532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Denis Carvin, G. Kremer, P. Owezarski, Pascal Berthou
{"title":"Assessment and event based analysis of dynamic wireless networks","authors":"Denis Carvin, G. Kremer, P. Owezarski, Pascal Berthou","doi":"10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727832","url":null,"abstract":"The last decade has seen an increasing interest for wireless communications. With the current use of smart-phones and tablets, together with the rise of the Internet of Things, the number of mobile nodes in networks is significantly changing the way they are managed. Indeed, these wireless networks are highly dynamic, mainly, regarding topology and traffic matrices. The high dynamism of mobile nodes can for instance impact the connectivity of the network, or the role of the nodes in the routing graph. Given this increasing complexity, network's service management requires to be as autonomous as possible. However, autonomy can not be achieved unless the network is able to assess and understand its own behavior. In this paper, we propose an assessment index (SA) based on nodes' satisfaction and its self-estimation algorithm for wireless mobile networks.We then provide events' collection and distributed mining methods allowing nodes to analyze the evolution of this index.We illustrate our framework and characterize the estimation error for various network properties under NS3 simulations.","PeriodicalId":410168,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2013)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128233952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. D. Carvalho, R. Esteves, Guilherme da Cunha Rodrigues, L. Granville, L. Tarouco
{"title":"A cloud monitoring framework for self-configured monitoring slices based on multiple tools","authors":"M. D. Carvalho, R. Esteves, Guilherme da Cunha Rodrigues, L. Granville, L. Tarouco","doi":"10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727833","url":null,"abstract":"The monitoring of cloud computing environments is a key point to assure the availability of the cloud slices offered to cloud users. However, there are not any monitoring systems that satisfy all the cloud administrator requirements which imposes that cloud slices need to be monitored by a set of monitoring systems. The set of monitoring system configuration necessary to monitor a cloud slice and the corresponding set of monitored metrics we define as a monitoring slice. Unfortunately, the monitoring slices need to be built using solutions that are not integrated with cloud platforms. This lack of integration imposes that cloud administrators manually configure the monitoring solutions or develop scripts to automate this task. In this paper we propose a framework to address the problem of creating monitoring slices automatically independent of the monitoring solutions employed. To evaluate our proposed framework in an IaaS scenario, we develop FlexACMS, flexible automate cloud monitoring slices, which relies on a modules that flexibly handles cloud platforms and monitoring solutions.","PeriodicalId":410168,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2013)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125107416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Wichtlhuber, Peter Heise, Bjorn Scheurich, D. Hausheer
{"title":"Reciprocity with virtual nodes: Supporting mobile peers in Peer-to-Peer content distribution","authors":"M. Wichtlhuber, Peter Heise, Bjorn Scheurich, D. Hausheer","doi":"10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727866","url":null,"abstract":"The Peer-to-Peer (P2P) paradigm offers scalable means to perform bulk data distribution, e.g., for small businesses which cannot afford huge upfront investments, by incorporating user's resources in the dissemination process. Due to the proliferation of smartphones with wireless broadband connectivity and the increasing convergence of fixed and mobile platforms, a growing number of users are expected to participate in P2P content distribution networks wirelessly. However, the P2P approach only works if users are willing to contribute resources. A commonly applied incentive scheme is the well-known Tit-for-Tat approach, where each peer is forced to contribute as much bandwidth to the network as he consumes. Nevertheless, reciprocal schemes discriminate resource poor mobile devices in terms of energy and upload bandwidth, as they are device-bound instead of being user-bound. In this work, an incentive scheme featuring virtual nodes is presented, which allows mobile devices to seek help from other devices owned by its user, e.g., the user's home gateway or a supporting cloud instance. Preliminary results are presented in the scope of a P2P streaming scenario.","PeriodicalId":410168,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2013)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127024557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gabriela F. Cretu-Ciocarlie, U. Lindqvist, S. Nováczki, H. Sanneck
{"title":"Detecting anomalies in cellular networks using an ensemble method","authors":"Gabriela F. Cretu-Ciocarlie, U. Lindqvist, S. Nováczki, H. Sanneck","doi":"10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727831","url":null,"abstract":"The Self-Organizing Networks (SON) concept includes the functional area known as self-healing, which aims to automate the detection and diagnosis of, and recovery from, network degradations and outages. This paper focuses on the problem of cell anomaly detection, addressing partial and complete degradations in cell-service performance, and it proposes an adaptive ensemble method framework for modeling cell behavior. The framework uses Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to determine cell-performance status and is able to cope with legitimate system changes (i.e., concept drift). The results, generated using real cellular network data, suggest that the proposed ensemble method automatically and significantly improves the detection quality over univariate and multivariate methods, while using intrinsic system knowledge to enhance performance.","PeriodicalId":410168,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2013)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115581623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lúcia Martins, João Lopes, J. Craveirinha, J. Clímaco, Ricardo Cadime, C. Monica
{"title":"Network performance improvement through evaluation of bicriteria routing methods in transport networks","authors":"Lúcia Martins, João Lopes, J. Craveirinha, J. Clímaco, Ricardo Cadime, C. Monica","doi":"10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727807","url":null,"abstract":"Bandwidth allocation and management is of paramount importance for telcos mainly in packet transport networks where bandwidth needs an even more tricky control than in the previous circuit-based SDH networks. In these new transport networks, as is the case of MPLS-TP or Carrier Ethernet networks, it is very important to balance the traffic load distribution in order to avoid localized overloads when some parts of the networks still have available bandwidth. The load balance in the network can improve the fulfillment of the service level agreements and the network performance, namely with respect to the amount of carried traffic. In point-to-point (p2p) virtual connections it is well known that the shortest paths obtained through the hop count metric can lead to an inefficient load distribution. In order to better distribute the traffic over the network other metrics that can be used in shortest paths algorithms have been proposed in the literature. In this paper we present a bicriteria approach in which the first objective has the purpose of better distribute the traffic in the network and the second objective function intends to minimize the amount of network resources involved in each virtual connection. This is a general approach that can be applied to different kind of virtual connections such as point to multipoint (p2m) or multipoint to multipoint (m2m). This paper is focused on the algorithms and the methods involved in the calculation and path selection for p2p connections and also presents a network performance study of the addressed methods, considering realistic transport networks.","PeriodicalId":410168,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2013)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116438263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Refactoring multi-layered access control policies through (De)composition","authors":"M. Casalino, R. Thion","doi":"10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727843","url":null,"abstract":"Policy-based access control is a well-established paradigm for securing layered IT systems. Access control policies, however, often do not focus on dedicated architecture layers, but increasingly employ concepts of multiple layers. Web application servers, for instance, typically support request filtering on the basis of network addresses. The resulting flexibility comes with increased management complexity and the risk of security-relevant misconfiguration when looking at the various policies in isolation. We therefore propose a flexible access control framework able to provide a comprehensive view of the global access control policy implemented in a given system. The focus of this paper is to lay down the theoretical foundations of this framework that allows (i) to describe authorization policies from different architecture layers, (ii) to capture the semantics of dependencies between layers in order to create a composed view of the global policy, and (iii) to decompose the global policy again into a collection of simpler ones by means of algebraic techniques inspired from database normalization theory.","PeriodicalId":410168,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2013)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127930279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scalable matching and ranking for network search","authors":"Misbah Uddin, R. Stadler, A. Clemm","doi":"10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727844","url":null,"abstract":"Network search makes operational data available in real-time to management applications. In contrast to traditional monitoring, neither the data location nor the data format needs to be known to the invoking process, which simplifies application development, but requires an efficient search plane inside the managed system. The search plane is realized as a network of search nodes that process search queries in a distributed fashion. This paper introduces matching and ranking for network search queries. We are proposing a semantic for matching and ranking, which is configurable to support different types of management applications-from exact matching for database-style queries to loose, approximate matching, which is appropriate for exploratory purposes. We describe an echo protocol for efficient distributed query processing that supports matching and ranking. Further, we present the design of a search node, which maintains a real-time database of operational information and allows for parallel processing of search queries. A prototype implementation on a cloud testbed shows that the network search system, on a 9-node cluster with 24 core servers, executes 200 global search queries/sec with the 75th percetile latency below 100 milliseconds and with a CPU utilization below 5%. The performance measurements, together with our design, suggest that a system of 100,000 servers processing the same load would exhibit the same overhead per server and a query latency of below 1 sec.","PeriodicalId":410168,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2013)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115873508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}