Mario Alessandro Bochicchio, A. Longo, Caterina Mansueto
{"title":"Contract Management for Cloud Services: Information modelling aspects","authors":"Mario Alessandro Bochicchio, A. Longo, Caterina Mansueto","doi":"10.1109/INM.2011.5990501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INM.2011.5990501","url":null,"abstract":"Contract Management Processes play a central role in Management of Cloud Services and require suitable software solutions to support it. Contracts for the Cloud must combine international legal, financial, technical and operational aspects in a concise and expressive form, able to drive the business, but also to minimize any controversy in case of problems. Moreover, it must cover a wide range of scenarios: from well-known standard situations (e.g. to provide email, web hosting or housing to private and small companies) to highly customized ones (Government, large companies and strategic customers may have very specific requests which also affect contracts). In all cases software support is essential, during the whole contract lifecycle, from definition to execution, up to the conclusion. In this scenario we propose an approach to Cloud Services' Contract Management (CM), which includes process and information modeling, and in this paper we discuss the validation of information modeling in a focus group of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) .","PeriodicalId":433520,"journal":{"name":"12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2011) and Workshops","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114444189","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":"Automatic and independent Domain Name Service Configuration Management","authors":"Miguel Lopes, António D. Costa, Bruno Dias","doi":"10.1109/INM.2011.5990644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INM.2011.5990644","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we propose an Automated and Distributed Network Service Configuration Management subsystem that, using independent network service configurations, abstracts the heterogeneous service implementation details and enables the development of high-level independent management applications. This overcomes the need for intermediary static configuration translation schemes, while providing an efficient way to deal with heterogeneous service management. To prove the usefulness of our architecture, an automated and independent Domain Name Service (DNS) configuration management prototype tool was built. Implementing an independent server-centric management approach, the prototype provides a group of advanced features to simplify DNS management. Automatic configuration replication procedures were performed to demonstrate the framework's management independence to the service implementation details.","PeriodicalId":433520,"journal":{"name":"12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2011) and Workshops","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114483115","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":"An experimental testbed to predict the performance of XACML Policy Decision Points","authors":"B. Butler, B. Jennings, D. Botvich","doi":"10.1109/INM.2011.5990711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INM.2011.5990711","url":null,"abstract":"The performance and scalability of access control systems is a growing concern as organisations deploy ever more complex communications and content management systems. This paper describes how an (offline) experimental testbed may be used to address performance concerns. To begin, timing measurements are collected from a server component incorporating the Policy Decision Point (PDP) under test, using representative policies and corresponding requests. Our experiments with two XACML PDP implementations show that measured request service times are typically clustered by request type; thus an algorithm for request cluster identification is presented. Cluster characterisations are used as inputs to a PDP performance model for a given policy/request mix and an analytic (queueing) model is used to estimate the equilibrium server load for different mixes of request clusters. The analytic performance prediction model is validated and extended by discrete event simulation of a PDP subject to additional load. These predictive models enable network administrators to explore the capacity of the PDP for different overall loadings (requests per unit time) and profiles (relative frequencies) of requests.","PeriodicalId":433520,"journal":{"name":"12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2011) and Workshops","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115163787","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":"What will happen if cloud management operations burst out?","authors":"S. Kikuchi, Y. Matsumoto","doi":"10.1109/INM.2011.5990679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INM.2011.5990679","url":null,"abstract":"Currently, cloud data centers make use of server virtualization techniques that consolidate computational resources to provide various services and improve resource utilization. However, the pattern of resource usage in some management operations for virtualized systems, such as live migration and snapshot recording, is different from that in the case of a traditional data center in which the virtualization technology is not used. Therefore, understanding the system behavior during the execution of a large number of management operations is very important for the reliable management of a virtualized cloud data center. With this understanding, we studied the characteristics of management operation performance by executing many operations simultaneously in an experimental virtual server system. The experimental results revealed some notable characteristics, including interference between operations with virtual machines (VMs) hosted on different physical servers and the asymmetric nature of live migration. On the basis of these findings, we state that degradation of operation performance can be mitigated by orchestrating operations under a proper control policy. We confirm the validity of these suggestions by carrying out a case study.","PeriodicalId":433520,"journal":{"name":"12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2011) and Workshops","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114077641","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":"Enhancing cooperation with multiple stage auctions in opportunistic routing for wireless mesh networks","authors":"Kun Zhang, Rui Wang, D. Qian, Zhongzhi Luan","doi":"10.1109/INM.2011.5990584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INM.2011.5990584","url":null,"abstract":"Opportunistic routing significantly increases throughput in wireless mesh networks (WMNs) by utilizing the wireless broadcast medium. Most opportunistic routing protocols assume all nodes are cooperative. But in WMNs, one realistic problem is that nodes perform in their own interests and refuse to forward packets for other nodes. Game theory approach is an efficient way used in routing protocol to incentive nodes to forward other's packets. In this paper, we develop an auction incentive mechanism (AIM) for WMNs with opportunistic routing to encourage cooperation and balance energy consumption between nodes. In AIM, a fair pricing mechanism is used to incentive nodes and the pricing process is modeled as auction game reached Bayesian Nash equilibrium which maximizes the profit of each relay node. The energy status and throughput are considered in the bidding process; this not only ensures the high throughput but also balances the energy cost to reduce invalid nodes. Simulations are presented to complement our theoretical and evaluation results demonstrate its high performance in terms of stability, throughput and fairness.","PeriodicalId":433520,"journal":{"name":"12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2011) and Workshops","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123938053","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":"Performance management of Java-based SIP application servers","authors":"M. Femminella, E. Maccherani, G. Reali","doi":"10.1109/INM.2011.5990551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INM.2011.5990551","url":null,"abstract":"Within the activities of the Java APIs for Integrated Networks (JAIN), the Java community offers a set of standard frameworks and open protocol APIs to create advanced telecommunications services. However, recent works have pointed out that Java-based implementations of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) stack, the fundamental signalling protocol in the convergent telephone-IP world, perform poorly if they are executed by large multi-core servers, typically used in data centres. The problem lies in the combination of the SIP protocol semantics with the Java language features, which does not allow fully exploiting the computing capabilities of multi-core architectures. To face this problem, we propose a solution to improve the throughput and signalling latency of applications implemented by using Java-based SIP application servers. It consists of the joint usage of virtualization and parallelization techniques. We have performed an extensive measurement campaign by using an open source application server compliant with the JSLEE (JAIN Service Logic Execution Environment) specifications. The rationale of this choice is that JSLEE application servers are currently regarded as very promising candidates for deploying telecom services. Results show that it is possible improving performance in terms of throughput and signalling latency by running more instances of the JSLEE server in parallel, each of them into separate virtual machines deployed on the same server. This improvement can increase throughput values of about 64% and, in the maximum throughput condition, the call set up latency can be nearly halved.","PeriodicalId":433520,"journal":{"name":"12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2011) and Workshops","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123968086","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}
L. Schmelz, M. Amirijoo, A. Eisenblätter, R. Litjens, M. Neuland, John Turk
{"title":"A coordination framework for self-organisation in LTE networks","authors":"L. Schmelz, M. Amirijoo, A. Eisenblätter, R. Litjens, M. Neuland, John Turk","doi":"10.1109/INM.2011.5990691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INM.2011.5990691","url":null,"abstract":"Self-organising Networks (SON) as introduced for 3G Long Term Evolution (LTE) will typically involve several different SON functions. These functions are not necessarily aware of each other and may have complex relations and interdependencies, for example, conflicting parameter settings, depending on their design and approach. Coordination of SON functions may become necessary in order to harmonise the actions of SON functions and allow for a stable and reliable behaviour of the SON system. This paper describes different conflict types, harmonisation approaches to avoid and resolve conflicts, and a functional framework with different roles to achieve harmonisation. An exemplary case study is given. The paper concludes that, in case several conflicting SON functions are implemented in a network, a SON Coordinator may be beneficial to prevent from network instabilities and/or to improve the performance.","PeriodicalId":433520,"journal":{"name":"12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2011) and Workshops","volume":"125 25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125109350","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}
P. Magdalinos, A. Kousaridas, P. Spapis, Giorgos P. Katsikas, N. Alonistioti
{"title":"Feedback-based learning for self-managed network elements","authors":"P. Magdalinos, A. Kousaridas, P. Spapis, Giorgos P. Katsikas, N. Alonistioti","doi":"10.1109/INM.2011.5990651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INM.2011.5990651","url":null,"abstract":"Autonomic network management systems will operate in a volatile network environment; thus they should be able to continuously adapt their decision making mechanism through learning from the behavior of the communication system. In this paper, a novel learning scheme is proposed based on the network-wide collected performance experience, targeting the enhancement of network elements' decision making engine. The algorithm employs a fuzzy logic inference engine in order to enable self-managed network elements faults or optimization opportunities identification, which is enhanced by applying data mining techniques on the accumulated observations.","PeriodicalId":433520,"journal":{"name":"12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2011) and Workshops","volume":"21 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129932386","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":"On the merits of popularity prediction in multimedia content caching","authors":"J. Famaey, T. Wauters, F. Turck","doi":"10.1109/INM.2011.5990669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INM.2011.5990669","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, telecom operators have been moving away from traditional, broadcast-driven, television towards IP-based, interactive and on-demand services. Consequently, multicast is no longer a viable solution to limit the amount of traffic in the IP-TV network. In order to counter an explosion in generated traffic, caches can be strategically placed throughout the content delivery infrastructure. As the size of caches is usually limited to only a small fraction of the total size of all content items, it is important to accurately predict future content popularity. Classical caching strategies only take into account the past when deciding what content to cache. Recently, a trend towards novel strategies that actually try to predict future content popularity has arisen. In this paper, we ascertain the viability of using popularity prediction in realistic multimedia content caching scenarios. The use of popularity prediction is compared to classical strategies using trace files from an actual deployed Video on Demand service. Additionally, the synergy between several parameters, such as cache size and prediction window, is investigated.","PeriodicalId":433520,"journal":{"name":"12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2011) and Workshops","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122260284","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":"Joint source channel coding optimization for heterogeneous access networks in multiuser scenario","authors":"L. Toni, L. Rossi, N. Agoulmine, J. Fontaine","doi":"10.1109/INM.2011.5990514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INM.2011.5990514","url":null,"abstract":"In a multiple access technologies scenario, aimed at providing the “always best connected” (ABC) service, the future fourth-generation wireless networks will be characterized by an increasing heterogeneity. When a multimedia transmission is considered, the ABC can be improved by the optimization of the source coding. In this work, we propose a joint source channel coding (JSCC) optimization technique, able to adapt the system parameters to channel variations, providing at the same time a high level of scalability of the encoded video bitstream. With the proposed JSCC method, we address the ABC issue in multi-user scenario affected by multiple interference. The results show that, despite the simplicity of the algorithm, the adaptive system experiences an improvement of the performance compared to fixed coding schemes.","PeriodicalId":433520,"journal":{"name":"12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2011) and Workshops","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116407856","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}