Publicado em: 26/03/2010

Defesa de Proposta de Tese em Sistemas de Computação

UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL
INSTITUTO DE INFORMÁTICA
PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM COMPUTAÇÃO
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DEFESA DE PROPOSTA DE TESE

Aluna: Clarissa Cassales Marquezan
Orientador: Prof. Dr. Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville

Título: On the Investigation of the Joint Use of Self-* Properties and
Peer-To-Peer for Network Management
Linha de Pesquisa: Sistemas de Computação

Data: 29/03/2010
Horário: 16h
Local: Auditório do Prédio 67

Banca Examinadora:
Prof. Dr. Javier Baliosian (Uni. Rep. Uruguay)
Prof. Dr. Antônio Marinho Pilla Barcellos (UFRGS)
Prof. Dr. Luciano Paschoal Gaspary (UFRGS)

Presidente da Banca: Prof. Dr. Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville

Resumo:
Over the years, the network management community has been pushed towards
the design of alternative management approaches able to support
heterogeneity, scalability, reliability, and minor human intervention.
Currently, there are two major alternatives that have been employed on
the design and development of network management solutions. The first
one uses autonomic computing and self-* properties, while the second one
employs Peer-To-Peer (P2P) concepts and technologies.
In general, the investigations related to self-* properties and
autonomic computing applied to network management focus their efforts on
defining high level models (e.g., ontologies and policies) that are able
to determine and drive the autonomous actions of the system. On the
other side, P2P research applied to network management is mainly target
to define the communication infrastructure of management solution. Thus,
in the case of autonomic and self-* properties, there is a lack of
investigations approximating the high level models to the management
infrastructure, while the P2P investigations suffer from the opposite
problem.
Therefore, this thesis aims at bringing knowledge to issues
involving the joint use of self-* properties and P2P to contribute with
the development of alternatives for designing network management
solutions. The methodology used on the investigation is based on the
definition of assumptions, requirements, case studies, and issues for
the integration of self-* properties and P2P. Two case studies are
discussed in this proposal. The first one is a self-healing P2P approach
for reliability of network management platforms, while the second case
study is a self-organizing P2P approach for resource management (in
special network traffic) on network environments with underlaying and
overlay infrastructures. The experimental results of the case studies
demonstrate that the joint use of self-* properties and P2P provides
benefits for the execution network management task. In addition, the
results of the ongoing empirical analysis have been showing the
potentialities and drawbacks of the union of self-* properties and P2P
for designing network management solutions.

Palavras chave: Network Management,Self-* Properties, Peer-to-Peer