Towards Application-Centric Flexible Network Operation and Management
Norio Shiratori, Tetsuo Kinoshita, Takuo Suganuma, Glenn Mansfield · IEICE Transactions on Communications · 1999
SUMMARY To design and develop user-oriented, flexible and distributed applications which can deal with various users’ requirements, new technologies to manage, control and utilize the services of communication networks have to be provided.In this paper, the current challenges faced by large-scale distributed applications are discussed and a framework for the next generation network operation and management is presented on the basis of agent-based computing technologies.Examples of flexible distributed applications are presented to clarify the role of application-centric flexible network operation and management.