Artificial Intelligence For Secure NetworkCommunications
Julia Ann Johnson, Tim Derzaph, Jon Firor · WIT transactions on information and communication technologies · 1970
The national telecommunications infrastructure is increasing rapidly in complexity and the numbers of interconnected networks. To ensure high quality telecommunications service, Dr. Johnson and her students are developing an expert system that monitors evolution of the network and rejects proposals for evolution that violate rules that are built into the system. They are using an object-oriented graphical language for the rules and for constructing the user interface. Initially, they are concerned with changing network topologies and the software developed is called an expert system for network configuration. This is one part of their research goal of providing a network planning system that plans network topologies based on demands for service. Their focus is on interconnected voice networks as opposed to the rapidly emerging data services (e.g., email). The methods are expected to apply also to data networks. Three students are involved all of whom are now employed full time at telecommunications companies in Canada and continue their work on the project by providing consultation and writing scholarly papers coauthored by Dr. Johnson. We report investigative and preliminary work undertaken by Johnson and her students at the University of Regina in the area of network communications security, modelling and management. Transactions on Information and Communications Technologies vol 16, © 1996 WIT Press, www.witpress.com, ISSN 1743-3517