2018
Juliano Araujo Wickboldt, Mauricio Quatrin Guerreiro, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Marcos Felipe Schwarz, Chin Guok, Vangelis Chaniotakis, Andrew Lake, John Macauley
MEICAN: Simplifying DCN Life-Cycle Management from End-User and Operator Perspectives in Inter-Domain Environments Journal Article
In: IEEE Communications Magazine, 56 (1), pp. 179–187, 2018, ISSN: 0163-6804.
Abstract Links BibTeX Tags: Dynamic Circuit Networks (DCN) Inter-domain Networking
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title = {MEICAN: Simplifying DCN Life-Cycle Management from End-User and Operator Perspectives in Inter-Domain Environments},
author = {Juliano Araujo Wickboldt and Mauricio Quatrin Guerreiro and Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary and Marcos Felipe Schwarz and Chin Guok and Vangelis Chaniotakis and Andrew Lake and John Macauley},
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date = {2018-01-01},
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abstract = {National research and education networks (NRENs), such as ESnet, GéANT, and RNP, currently promote the employment of dynamic circuit networks (DCNs) to improve scientific communications beyond the capabilities of today's Internet. In spite of their alleged benefits to materialize user-initiated, ad hoc dedicated end-to-end circuits for high-demanding applications, DCNs also pose important challenges. Two examples are dealing with the end-user's lack of ability or willingness to understand low-level technicalities of virtual circuit establishment, and accommodating NRENs' local policies throughout the life-cycle of DCN. In this article, we seek to improve the usability of DCN services with a focus on the inexperienced end-user and the skilled network operator alike. We introduce MEICAN, a platform to manage the life-cycle of DCN from definition to provisioning of virtual circuits. We also present a case study of inter-domain circuit reservation with mixed manual and automated policy checking, and discuss lessons learned, relevant challenges, and open issues still to be overcome.},
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2012
José Jair Cardoso de Santanna, Juliano Araujo Wickboldt, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville
A BPM-based solution for inter-domain circuit management Inproceedings
In: 13th IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2012, Maui, HI, USA, April 16-20, 2012, pp. 385–392, IEEE, 2012.
Abstract Links BibTeX Tags: Business Process Management (BPM) Dynamic Circuit Networks (DCN) Inter-domain Networking Policy-Based Network Management (PBNM)
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title = {A BPM-based solution for inter-domain circuit management},
author = {José Jair Cardoso de Santanna and Juliano Araujo Wickboldt and Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2012.6211922},
doi = {10.1109/NOMS.2012.6211922},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-01-01},
booktitle = {13th IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2012, Maui, HI, USA, April 16-20, 2012},
pages = {385--392},
publisher = {IEEE},
abstract = {In the last few years, network middleware solutions have been proposed to deal with Quality of Service (QoS) demands of end-user network applications. Usually, such solutions employ virtual circuits, with end-points often located in different administrative domains. However, these middleware solutions still do not support online human decisions. The human-centered support is specially important when pre-installed rules do not suffice to evaluate virtual circuit requests. In this paper, we present a middleware for dynamic circuit networks (DCNs) based on the Business Process Management (BPM) approach to support human administrator decisions in virtual circuits provisioning. A set of experiments have been conducted in the Brazilian National Education and Research Network (RNP) backbone, and the findings in performance and flexibility are presented.},
keywords = {Business Process Management (BPM), Dynamic Circuit Networks (DCN), Inter-domain Networking, Policy-Based Network Management (PBNM)},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}