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

随着互联网发展成为全球通信基础设施，它变得越来越复杂和无处不在。它将主机和网络设备（如无线mesh网络）的异构集合汇集在一起。这种不断增长的规模、复杂性和敏捷性的结果是，管理这种基础设施的问题变得越来越严重。集中于简化基本问题的研究表明，缺乏具有必要水平的上下文感知和适应性的单个端到端轻量级混合网络管理解决方案，尽管非常理想，但尚未实现。 因此，社区仍然无法从网络基础设施的许多新兴应用中充分获益。 这项研究涉及到一个探索性的调查？开车过去吗网络管理平台？即时的支持Internet的移动的网络。目标包括新的概念方法，耦合应用程序和中间件设计与网络管理服务的设计，新的理论模型，挖掘到网络管理的普适计算的特点，使丢失或冲突的信息收集从多个参与节点可以容忍，增强安全管理算法的可信度功能;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;以及用于支持自主网络管理和配置的原型平台的扩展。 该研究的智力价值在于提出了第一步，综合网络管理的理论和设计解决方案，支持传统的网络管理协议和功能，除了动态方面的基础设施，无网络的综合。虽然存在一些风险，但有重点的研究可以克服目前的障碍。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式和工具铺平道路。

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.