Accession Number:

ADA516538

Title:

Enabling Distributed Management for Dynamic Airborne Networks

Descriptive Note:

Conference paper

Corporate Author:

TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES INC PISCATAWAY NJ

Personal Author(s):

• Chiang, Cho-Yu J.
• Levin, Gary
• Li, Shihwei
• Serban, Constantin
• Wolberg, Michelle
• Chadha, Ritu
• Hadynski, Gregory
• LaBarre, Lee

Report Date:

2009-07-01

Pagination or Media Count:

9.0

Abstract:

In this paper we describe our experience with integrating a distributed policy-based management system DRAMA with an open source network management system OpenNMS. Network operations seeking the benefits of policy-based network management often have pre-existing network monitoring systems. While these pre-existing systems are capable of monitoring the network, they are limited in their 1 ability to provide distributed network management, 2 support for automatically reconfiguring the network in response to network events, and 3 ability to adjust management traffic bandwidth consumption based on network conditions. For dynamic networks such as those consisting of airborne platforms, there is a need to provide the above capabilities in any management solution while preserving any underlying management systems. As a result, we integrated DRAMA with OpenNMS to add distributed policy management capability to a commonly used network management system. In this paper, we describe the background for this effort, our approach for integrating OpenNMS with DRAMA, and the design of a distributed resource indirection framework that allows the use of the same policies across different distributed policy decision points managing network devices with different attribute values.

Descriptors:

• *MANAGEMENT
• *COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
• MOBILE
• AIRBORNE
• POLICIES
• SYMPOSIA

Subject Categories:

• Computer Systems Management and Standards
• Radio Communications

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE