Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems
Sunday, 30 November, 2008
09:00AM-09:15AM
Opening Address - Dr. Brian Lee, Ericsson Ireland Research Center

09:15AM-10:00AM
Keynote Speech I - Dr. Marcus Brunner, NEC Laboratories Europe


10:00AM-10:30AM
Coffee Break


10:30AM-11:30PM Technical Session: Case Studies in Existing & Emerging Networks
Session Chair: Sidath Handurukande, Ericsson Ireland Research Center


"New Self-* Paradigms for Managing Customer Networks"

Valentin Alonso, Miguel Fernandez, Pablo Dávila, David Gallegos, Antonio Castillo, Enrique Paniego, Telefonica I+D



"A User Driven Dynamic Circuit Network Implementation"

Chin Guok (Energy Sciences Network), David Robertson (Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory), Evangelos Chaniotakis (ESnet), Mary Thompson (ESnet), William Johnston
(ESnet), Brian Tierney (LBL)


11:30AM-12:30PM Technical Session: Decentralized Monitoring & Management
Session Chair: Åsa Berglund, Ericsson Research Sweden


"Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Autonomic Monitoring"

João Leitão (Inesc-ID/IST), Liliana Rosa (Technical University of Lisbon), Luis Rodrigues (Uni. Lisboa)



"Opportunities, Requirements and Challenges for Storing Network Management Information in a Decentralized Way"

Marcus Brunner (NEC Europe), Frank-Uwe Andersen (Nokia Siemens Networks)


12:30AM-01:30PM Lunch Break


01:30PM-02:15PM
Keynote Speech II - Prof. Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Design of Next Generation Internet Based on Application-Oriented Networking


02:15PM-02:45PM
Coffee Break


02:45PM-03:45PM Technical Session: Autonomic Management
Session Chair: Brian Lee, Ericsson Ireland Research Center


"Toward Goal-Based Autonomic Networking"

Asa Berglund (Ericsson Research Sweden), Bjorn Bjurling (Swedish Institute of Computer Scence), Ramide Dantas (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil), Susanne Engberg (Ericsson Research), Pablo Giambiagi (SICS AB), Börje Ohlman (Ericsson Sweden)



"Automated Management of User Centric Session in NGN"

Wen Guo (Telecom-ParisTech (ENST)), Noemie Simoni (Telecom Paris), Chunyang Yin (ENST Télécom Paris)


03:45PM-04:00PM Coffee Break


04:00PM-05:00PM Technical Session: Management of Emerging Mobile and Wireless Networks
Session Chair: Nazim Agoulmine, Uni. of Evry Val d'Essonne, France


"BiCyQLE - A Framework for Bidirectional Cross-Layer Management of QoS Capabilities in Wireless Multimedia Environments"

Michael Ditze, University of Paderborn, Germany



"Distributed Clustering Around Relay Nodes in Sensor Networks"

Arunita Jaekel, Ataul Bari, Subir Bandyopadhyay (University of Windsor, Canada)


05:00PM
Closing

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Keynote Speech I : In-network Management: a shift in the management paradigm?
Sunday, 30 November, 2008 – 9:15AM-10:00AM
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Marcus Brunner, NEC Laboratories Europe

Abstract
Recent endeavors in addressing the challenges of the current and future Internet pursue a clean slate design methodology. We propose the in-network management (INM) paradigm, which adopts a clean slate design approach to the management of future communication networks. Basically, we propose to built-in network management functionality at design time of the Future Internet architecture. The proposed paradigm builds on embedded management capabilities to address the intrinsic nature, and hence, close relationship between the network and its management. At the same time, INM assists in the gradual adoption of embedded self-managing processes to progressively achieve adequate and practical degrees of INM.

Short Biography

Dr. Marcus Brunner is chief researcher at the Network Laboratories of NEC Europe Ltd. in Heidelberg, Germany. He received his Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), while working in the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK) of the Electrical Engineering Department in 1999. He got his M.S. in Computer Science from ETH Zurich in 1994. Aside from the involvement in different national and international projects, his primary research interests include network architectures (fixed and mobile), programmability in networks, network and service management. He is a leading member of the network management research community with being in the Organization and Technical Program Committees of major network management conferences such as NOMS, IM, DSOM, IPOM, etc. E.g., he was TPC co-chair of NOMS'08. Also in the networking area he is in the Organization and Technical Program Committees of major conferences such as IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, IEEE LCN, etc. He is currently IEEE Globecom 08 and ICC'09 symposium chair on Next Generation Networks. He is in the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), the Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM), and the Journal on Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications. Finally, he is secretary of the IEEE Communication Society Technical Activities Council (TAC) and secretary of the IEEE ComSoc technical committee on Network Operation and Management (CNOM).

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Keynote Speech II : Design of Next Generation Internet Based on Application-Oriented Networking
Sunday, 30 November, 2008 – 1:30PM-02:15PM
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Abstract
Enhancing network nodes with application intelligence has become one of the mainstream ideas to design the next-generation Internet, stimulated by various applications, including firewalls, Web proxies/caches, multicasting, mobile gateways, and service-oriented architectures. Cisco has already started to produce network devices with application intelligence to enhance the deployment, management, and integration of network applications, termed as application-oriented networking (AON). However, as far as we know, all of the current AON studies are directed to facilitate the upper-layer applications. In this talk, we take a generic interpretation of application-oriented networking, rather than as a vendor-specific solution, that the IP devices can intercept and process not only packet headers but also payloads. We will demonstrate that the AON methodology provides an opportunity to streamline the design of networking functionalities, or even trigger new Internet protocols or architectures, towards the next generation Internet. In particular, we will discuss how to develop a scalable multicast protocol based on AON and how to integrate AON, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and autonomic computing to establish a next-generation network management framework.

Short Biography

Yu Cheng received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1995 and 1998, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in 2003. From September 2004 to July 2006, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Since August 2006, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA, as an Assistant Professor. His research interests include service and application oriented networking, autonomic network management, Internet measurement and performance analysis, wireless networks, and wireless/wireline interworking. He received a Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) in 2004, and a Best Paper Award from the International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine'07), Vancouver, British Columbia, August, 2007. He is an Associated Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

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