The vision of Madeira is to provide new technologies for a logically meshed

            Network Management System (NMS) that:

·        Can manage networks with dynamic and transient network elements, ie. Peer-2-Peer, Ad-hoc networks.

·        Facilitates the deployment of self managed services

·        Scales to manage large networks

·        Can seamlessly manage heterogeneous networks

The Madeira Management System will address the following issues:

·        Distribution, the ability to handle the distributed nature of the network elements participating in the network.

·        Scalability, the ability to handle networks with millions of network elements

·        Discovery, the ability to automatically find and use devices as they appear and disappear

·        Heterogeneity, the ability to manage networks of different types using the same management approach

·        Model-Driven Specification, the ability to rapidly describe and programme management operations using modelling techniques

·        Policy Based Configuration, the ability to direct the network to act in a certain way rather than statically configuring behaviour

·        Deployment, the ability to automatically deploy services to elements and devices

 

The Madeira solution scope will deal with Fault Management and Configuration Management aspects of Network Management.

 

The TSSG are responsible for the Madeira Modelling activities. The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach is applied to capture the complexity of the required management tasks for a distributed network. This takes a “top-down” strategy by defining the high-level business case which then ultimately leads to a specification of management information and behaviour for network elements.

 

More specifically, TSSG are responsible for the modelling and implementation of the Adaptive Management Component (or AMC).  The AMC is the control centre or “brain” for network management of the network element. The AMC uses services provided by the Madeira Platform to successfully achieve configuration and fault management for the network element’s resources.  The AMC is also the container for the “Policy Based Management System” which provides the AMC with its reason and intelligence.

 

TSSG have successfully defined a meta-language specifically for use in modelling network management of P2P networks. Using this language, a model for the AMC has been created using the UML modelling tool, Enterprise Architect. This model was then used to generate a structure for software implementation of the AMC.

 

The AMC development now continues using a manual approach (i.e. via Eclipse) due to the limitations of currently available MDA tools.

 

As part of a parallel activity in evaluating MDA, the MDA tool Xactium is used to attempt to follow the MDA approach. As mentioned above, Xactium is currently still limited in functionality and only supports a subset of Java functionality ie. equivalent to J2ME.

Summary of outputs

Refereed Academic Papers:

2005

Martin Zach, Daryl Parker, Liam Fallon, Christian Unfried, Miguel Ponce de Leon, Sven van de Meer, Nektarios Georgalas, Johan Nielsen; Celtic Initiative Project Madeira: A P2P Approach to Network Management; Eurescom Summit 2005, Heidelberg, Germany

2006

Zach, M., Parker, D., Fahy, C., Carroll, R., Lehtihet, E., Georgalas, N., Marin, R., Serrat, J., Nielsen; Towards a framework for network management applications based on peer-to-peer paradigms; NOMS 2006, Vancouver, Canada.

Carroll, R., Fahy, C., Lehtihet, E., van der Meer, S., GeorgalasN., Cleary, D.; Applying the P2P paradigm to management of large-scale distributed networks using Model Driven Approach; NOMS 2006, Vancouver, Canada.

Arozarena, P.,  Frints, M., Collins, S., Fallon, L., Zach, M., Serrat, J., Nielsen, J.; A Peer-to-peer approach to network management; Wireless World Research Forum, Shanghai, China  April 2006

Ricardo Marin, Julio Vivero, Hai Nguyen, Joan Serrat, Philipp Leitner, Martin Zach, Claire Fahy; A Distributed Policy-based solution in a Fault Management scenario; 49th Annual IEEE Globecom Technical Conference, San Francisco, 27th November - December 1, 2006

2007

Markus Leitner, Philipp Leitner, Martin Zach, Sandra Collins, Claire Fahy; Fault Management based on peer-to-peer paradigm; Tenth IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (Short paper accepted, Munich, May 2007).

Presentations:

            Martin Zach (Siemens); Eurescom summit 2005; Heidelberg, Germany.

            Celtic Initiative Project Madeira: A P2P Approach to Network Management;

           

Dr. Sandra Collins (Ericsson) & Miguel Ponce de Leon (TSSG); Celtic Event 2006; February 23^rd -24^th, Dublin, Ireland; Madeira presentation and demo;

General Publicity

2005

Martin Zach (Siemens); Eurescom summit 2005; Heidelberg, Germany.

            Celtic Initiative Project Madeira: A P2P Approach to Network Management;

 

2006

Dr. Sandra Collins (Ericsson) & Miguel Ponce de Leon (TSSG); Celtic Event 2006; February 23^rd -24^th, Dublin, Ireland; Madeira presentation and demo;

 

1 Poster Session at NOMS ’06

 

WIT Research Matters

Issue 6 Summer 2006

http://www2.wit.ie/Research/News/FiletoUpload,6381,en.pdf

 

Public Deliverables

Madeira Public Deliverables can be found at:

http://www.celtic-madeira.org/deliverables.html

 

Here is an overview of the Public Deliverables:

1)    Overview of Madeira architecture, platform and data modelling requirements and proposed solution set

This document is a summary of the Madeira Project Requirements and Proposed Solution Sets in the areas of

·                  Architecture

·                  Platform

·                  Data Modelling

·                  And also the Functional Requirements that were generated by    the Case Study

2)    First main project Annual report, summarising all main results and outputs

3)    Overview of Madeira case study and functional requirements

This document describes and analyses the scenario for the Madeira project and suggests how that scenario might be realised on real networks. It goes on to describe how a subset of that scenario might be deployed on real equipment and on a simulated environment for demonstration purposes.

4)    Design description of Madeira architecture, platform and data modelling solution set

5)    Description and performance analysis of Madeira case study

6)    Results and performance analysis of Madeira architecture, platform and data modelling and solution set

7)    Final main project Annual report, summarising all main results and outputs
        

Partner list

Ericsson R&D Ireland    EI 
Siemens AG Austria / PSE    Austria 
BT Group    UK  
Ericsson Research    SE   
Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo    ES  
TSSG    EI  
Unversitat Politèicnica de Catalunya    ES