Network Management for Interconnected Broadband Communications Networks

首席研究员（PI）将开发用于宽带通信网络的分布式网络管理和控制方案的建模、分析、设计和优化技术。重点将放在相互连接的宽带本地和城域网电信网上。这种网络结构的网络管理体系结构是分层排列的，以产生更低的复杂性和更可靠的实现。它们高度利用并行控制、处理和计算过程，从而大大提高管理和控制过程的速度。这些措施确保及时执行控制动作，对观察到的分布式负载、容量、性能和系统条件的变化做出快速反应。本研究将集中于设计这种分布式管理和控制系统所涉及的关键要素，包括以下问题：1。信息感知、观察和收集程序，用于为底层网络管理任务收集相关信息。2. 分层网络管理架构和控制策略。3. 研究分布式网络管理策略稳态性能的数值有效技术的发展。

The principal investigator (PI) will develop techniques for the modeling, analysis, design, and optimization of distributed network management and control schemes for broadband communications networks. The emphasis will be on interconnected broadband local and metropolitan area telecommunications networks. Network management architectures for such network structures are hierarchically arranged to yield lower complexity and more reliable implementations. They highly capitalize on parallel control, processing, and computational processes to yield considerable speed up of the management and control process. These measures ensure that control actions are executed in a timely manner, reacting fast to observed changes in distributed loading, capacity, performance, and system conditions. This research will focus on key elements involved in the design of such distributed management and control systems including the following issues: 1. Information sensing, observation, and gathering procedures for collecting relevant information for underlying network management tasks. 2. hierarchial network management architectures and control policies. 3. development of numerically effective techniques for studying the steady state performance of such distributed network management policies.