Advances in Network-Embedded Management and Applications (eBook)

Preface 6
Table of Contents 8
Contributors 9
Reviewers and NEMA Program Committee Members 10
Chapter 1:Challenges and Experiences in Transitioning Management Instrumentation from Command-Oriented to Model-Driven 12
1 Introduction 12
2 Background 14
3 Design Considerations 15
3.1 Defining the Instrumentation Model 17
Derivation from Source Code 17
Designing from Domain Knowledge 17
3.2 Model Inheritance 18
3.3 Dynamic versus Static Models 18
3.4 Model Versioning 18
4 Implementation Experiences 19
An API Implementation Example 21
5 Related Work 23
6 Conclusions 25
Further Work 26
References 27
Chapter 2:A Low Power, Programmable Networking Platform and Development Environment 29
1 Introduction 30
2 Related Work 31
3 The SCALOPES C-board 32
3.2 Internal Structure 33
3.3 Low Power Design 35
4 The Development Environment 36
4.1 GUI based development 38
4.2 Custom module development 39
4.3 Hardware accelerator development 39
5 Case Studies 41
5.1 A Network Monitoring System with DPI Capabilities 41
5.2 Generic Switch/Router architecture 43
6 Summary 44
References 45
Chapter 3:Application Framework for Programmable Network Control 47
1 Introduction 47
2 Related Work 48
3 Application Framework for Network Control 50
4 Functional Components 52
5 Implementation and Test Bed 54
5.1 Hardware 54
6 Network Control Programs 57
7 Conclusion and Future Work 59
Acknowledgments 60
References 60
Chapter 4:Facilitating Adaptive Placement of Management and Control Functions in Converged ICT Systems 63
1 Introduction 63
2 Related Work 65
3 Adaptive Placement of Management and Control Functions 67
3.1 Management/Control Capabilities 68
Internal Structure of Management Capabilities 70
3.2 Management and Control Structures 70
3.4 Realization Options 71
4 Scenario: OpenFlow Control and In-Network Management 72
4.2 Scenario Description 73
4.3 Discussion of Scenario 74
5 Conclusion 76
References 77
Chapter 5:Wire-Speed Hardware-Assisted Traffic Filtering with Mainstream Network Adapters 81
1 Introduction 81
2 Motivation and Scope of Work 83
3 Related Work 85
4 Framework Design 86
5 Use Cases and Validation 90
5.1 Realtime Multimedia Traffic Monitoring 91
5.2 Network Troubleshooting 92
5.3 Traffic Classification and Balancing 92
5.5 Firewalling at 10 Gbit 93
6 Open Issues and Future Work 93
7 Conclusions 94
References 94
Chapter 6:Embedded Rule-based Management for Content-based DTNs 97
1 Introduction 97
2 An Opportunistic Content-based Routing Protocol 99
2.1 RON Protocol 100
3 Managing a Delay Tolerant Protocol 101
4 System Overview 102
4.1 Common Node Architecture 103
5 Implementation 104
5.2 PDP 105
5.3 Rmoon 106
5.4 RON 106
6 Management Footprint 107
7 Conclusions and Future Work 109
References 110