Services Management in Intelligent Networks

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 2000, held in Austin, TX, USA in December 2000. The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 65 submissions. The book is divided into topical sections on architectures for internet management, fault management of services and networks, inter-domain management, event handling for management services, QoS management, and management architectures.

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Architectures for Internet Management.- A Scalable Architecture for Monitoring and Visualizing Multicast Statistics.- A Control Architecture for Lightweight Virtual Networks.- MRMA: A Multicast Resource Management Architecture for IP Platforms.- Fault Management of Networks and Services.- Operational Data Analysis: Improved Predictions Using Multi-computer Pattern Detection.- Scalable Visualization of Event Data.- Service Management Platform: The Next Step in Management Tools.- Management of Internet Services.- A Customer Service Management Architecture for the Internet.- Constructing End-to-End Traffic Flows for Managing Differentiated Services Networks.- Platform Architecture for Internet Service Delivery and Management.- Inter-domain Management.- Middleware Platform Management Based on Portable Interceptors.- Meta-management of Dynamic Distributed Network Managers (MEMAD).- Service Contracts Based on Workflow Modeling.- Event Handling for Management Services.- Using Time over Threshold to Reduce Noise in Performance and Fault Management Systems.- The Doctor Is In: Helping End Users Understand the Health of Distributed Systems.- Beacon: A Hierarchical Network Topology Monitoring System Based on IP Multicast.- QoS Management.- Managing Concurrent QoS Assured Multicast Sessions Using a Programmable Network Architecture.- Providing Global Management Functions for ATM Networks.- MetaNet: A Distributed Network Management System for Information Delivery and Planning with Quality of Service Guarantees.- Topics in Management Architectures.- A Multi-agent System for Resource Management in Wireless Mobile Multimedia Networks.- Using Message Reflection in a Management Architecture for CORBA.- Evaluation of Constrained Mobility for Programmability in Network Management.