Madeira

The goal of Madeira is to provide novel technologies for a logically meshed Network Management System (NMS) that facilitates dynamic behaviour of transient network elements. This will enable self-managed services and network elements of increased scale, heterogeneity and transience thereby reducing OPEX.

The aims of the project are to:

• Provide de-facto standards that allow a high degree of inter-working between the management systems of various network domains. This will be achieved through the specification of architecture for a distributed non-hierarchical NMS.
• Provide an advanced computing reference framework to support management operations that are massively distributed in nature, across dynamically forming networks. This will be accomplished by developing a logically meshed peer-to-peer network management computing environment.
• Provide a means of rapidly and efficiently describing and programming management operations that form network management applications through new modelling techniques.
• Explore and define a new relationship between Configuration and Fault management for transient dynamic network elements For example, concerns would be how to differentiate between fault and normal network behaviour.

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TSSG Contact Person: Claire Fahy