SGER: A Lightweight Drive-Through Management Service for Internet-enabled Ad-Hoc Networks

SGER：适用于支持 Internet 的 Ad-Hoc 网络的轻量级直通式管理服务

• 批准号: 0843385
• 负责人: Niki Pissinou
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Florida International University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0843385&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Lightweight; Drive; Through; Management

As the Internet evolves into a global communication infrastructure, it is becoming complex and ubiquitous. It is bringing together heterogeneous collections of hosts and network devices such as wireless mesh networks. A consequence of this ever-increasing scale, complexity and agility is that problems of managing this infrastructure keep getting worse. Research concentrating on streamlining fundamental issues has shown that absence of a single end-to-end lightweight hybrid network management solution with the necessary levels of context awareness and adaptability, while much desirable, has not yet been realized. Consequently, the community is still detained from fully gaining from many of the emerging applications of the cyber-infrastructure. This research involves an exploratory investigation towards a ?drive through? network management platform for ?on-the-fly? Internet-enabled mobile networks. Objectives include new conceptual approaches that couple application, and middleware designs with design of network management services; novel theoretical models that tap into in-network management characteristics of pervasive computing so that missing or conflicting information gathered from multiple participating nodes can be tolerated; augmentation of security management algorithms with trustworthiness functionalities; theoretical schemes that examine epistemic uncertainty by fusing imprecision, uncertainty and event synchronization with belief theory; and extensions to archetype platforms for supporting autonomic network management and configuration. The intellectual merit of the research lies in presenting a first step towards synthesis of integrated network management theoretical and design solutions that support traditional network management protocols and functionalities in addition to the dynamic aspects of infrastructures-less networks. Although some risk exists, focused research can overcome the current barriers. The broader impact of the research is that this work will pave the way to transformative next generation network management paradigms and tools.

随着互联网演变为全球通信基础设施，它正变得复杂和无处不在。它正在将各种不同的主机和网络设备集合在一起，例如无线Mesh网络。这种不断增长的规模、复杂性和敏捷性的结果是，管理这些基础设施的问题越来越严重。专注于简化基本问题的研究表明，虽然非常可取，但还没有实现具有必要级别的上下文感知和适应性的单一端到端轻量级混合网络管理解决方案。因此，社区仍然无法从许多新兴的网络基础设施应用中充分获益。这项研究涉及一项探索性调查，目的是通过？驾车？面向移动通信的网络管理平台支持互联网的移动网络。目标包括将应用程序和中间件设计与网络管理服务设计相结合的新概念方法；利用普适计算的网络内管理特征以便可以容忍从多个参与节点收集的丢失或冲突信息的新理论模型；具有可信功能的安全管理算法的增强；通过将不精确性、不确定性和事件同步与信念理论相融合来检查认知不确定性的理论方案；以及支持自主网络管理和配置的原型平台的扩展。这项研究的智力价值在于向综合集成网络管理理论和设计解决方案迈出了第一步，这些解决方案除了支持无基础设施网络的动态方面外，还支持传统的网络管理协议和功能。尽管存在一些风险，但有针对性的研究可以克服当前的障碍。这项研究的更广泛影响是，这项工作将为变革性的下一代网络管理范例和工具铺平道路。