Active Technologies for Network and Service Management: Report on DSOM'99
DSOM’99, the Tenth IFIP/ IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management followed a series of annual meetings, the latest of which took place in Delaware, (DSOM’98) [1], Sydney, Australia (DSOM’97) [2], and L’Aquila, Italy (DSOM’96) [3]. DSOM is a single-track workshop of the management research community. The workshop traditionally stresses interaction and encourages active participation. DSOM’99 was hosted by the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zürich from October 11–13 in Zürich, Switzerland. Ninety participants attended the event. DSOM’99 was supported by Ascom, BT, IBM, GTE, Lucent, and Swisscom. For technical paper sessions, 55 submissions had been received, out of which 20 were selected for presentation and are published in the workshop proceedings [4]. Ten papers in the program came from Europe, eight papers from the Americas, and two papers from Asia. About half of the contributions originated from industry labs, the other half from academia. The program was structured into seven paper sessions, with a panel at the end of each day. A keynote speech opened up the program.
Report, edited by Paul Brusil: Services Management in Intelligent Networks—Report on DSOM 2000
DSOM 2000, the Eleventh IFIP/ IEEE International Workshop on “Distributed Systems: Operations and Management” followed a series of annual meetings, the latest of which took place in Zurich, Switzerland (DSOM’99) [1], Delaware, USA (DSOM’98) [2], and Sydney, Australia (DSOM’97) [3]. DSOM is a singletrack workshop of the management research community. The workshop traditionally stresses interaction and encourages active participation. DSOM 2000 was held at the Thompson Conference Center, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA, from December 4–6, 2000. Seventy (70) participants attended the event. It was sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society with technical co-sponsorship by IFIP Working Group 6.6, and was supported by IBM Research and Tivoli Systems. For technical paper sessions, 65 submissions had been received, out of which 21 were selected for presentation, and are published in the workshop proceedings [4]. In addition, 19 short papers on work-in-progress had been received, of which 12 were selected for presentation in two special sessions. The submissions were from 14 countries, and the participants were from both industry and academia. The program was structured into an opening keynote session, 7 technical paper sessions, 2 work-in-progress sessions, and a closing panel.
A distributed computing environment for building scalable management services
Marvel is a distributed computing environment that allows the creation of scalable management services using intelligent agents and the World-Wide Web. Marvel is based on an information model that generates computed views of management information and a distributed computing model that makes this information available to a variety of client applications. Marvel does not replace existing element management agents but rather builds on top of them a hierarchy of servers that aggregate the underlying information in a synchronous or asynchronous fashion and present it in the form of Java-enriched Web pages. It uses a distributed database to reduce the cost associated with centralized network management systems and mobile agent technology to: (a) support thin clients by uploading the necessary code to access Marvel services; and (b) extend its functionality dynamically by downloading code that incorporates new objects and services. A prototype implementation in Java is presented together with results from its first application on a broadband home access network using cable modems.