Heterogeneity, real-time sustainable performance protection, scalability, data floods and operating expenditures of modern telecommunication systems are driving research into new architectures for future Autonomic Network Management Systems. These new management architectures must be highly distributed and scalable, based on autonomous network elements and novel techniques that avoid management hierarchies and break down the stovepipe separations seen in the now decades-old TMN approach. Additionally, in order to maximize the self-management potential of emerging and future network devices, these elements must be enriched with formal semantic network models. Without global real-time coordination, they must continue to operate correctly in the presence of inconsistency, incomplete FCAPS data and badly formed NM Policies, and automatically adapt their per-hop behaviour according to prevailing network element resource availability and business application requirements.
This workshop is the first workshop of a series of annual workshops that will be organised by Ericsson Network Management Research Centre (NMRC) in Ireland dedicated to advances in distributed autonomous network management models for the converged telecommunication systems that form current and next-generation networks. The workshop is designed to provide a forum for discussing research results and best industrial practices in the area of modern network management systems, and will involve invited lectures, research and experience papers, as well as technical panel discussions.
Of particular interest this year are in-depth real world case studies, which will help identify and examine the current challenges faced by the telecom industry in terms of network management techniques and bottlenecks across the fixed and wireless boundaries. This set of key challenges will provide the basis for future research collaborations in the framework of national and EU-supported projects.
Novel papers are invited from both academic and industrial research environments, describing original theoretical or empirical results, new techniques, and in-depth user studies on a series of network management topics, including but not limited to:
- Distributed autonomic network management
- Network Stability in the presence of inconsistency
- Abstractions and languages for policy specification processes
- Rich semantic network modelling
- Behaviour, learning and self-configuration of network elements
- Case studies of applying policy-based technologies
- New distributed decision making techniques
- Policy-based utility computing across the fixed-wireless boundary
- Extensions and refinements of NM standards
- Business rules and organizational modeling
- SLA/contract based Network Management for NGNs
- Policy models for access-control, resource allocation, systems management, QoS adaptation, intrusion detection and privacy
- Autonomic mapping from policies to real-time managed services
- Performance analysis of Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems
- Policy based element configuration, including programmable networks, mobile wireless systems
- Case studies with distributed network management systems
- Scalability through grouping techniques (such as peer-to-peer super-clusters)
Accepted papers will be published as on-line Technical Workshop Proceedings.
Instructions for authors:
Authors are invited to submit papers of no more than 8 single-spaced A4 pages, including figures, tables, and references, in two-column format, using 11-point or larger font size. As usual, the work submitted must be original, not previously published or under submission at other venues. Submissions will be accepted in PDF following the standard IEEE paper format through EDAS (http://edas.info/listConferencesSubmit.php). Authors must create an EDAS account and choose the DANMS submission link.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 24 March 2006
Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2006
Final paper due: 30 April 2006
Registration & local arrangements:
To register for DANMS 2006, please use the registration form on the ICAC site https://epd.meng.arizona.edu/ICACConf-2006.php. You must choose one of the 'Workshop Full Day' options and specify DANMS 2006 in the text field that appears next to 'Workshop Full Day'. If you also register for the ICAC conference, the registration for the workshop is free. If you only register for the workshop, the registration fee is $200, and it includes attendance in the workshop and refreshments on the workshop day.
For each accepted paper, at least one author must be present at the workshop and present the paper. As usual, papers not presented at the workshop will not be included in proceedings or considered for the journal publication.
Workshop Contact Point:
Anne-Marie Bosneag, Network Management Research Centre, Ericsson Ireland, anne-marie.bosneag_at_ericsson.com
