Control and management of next generation IP networks

多年来，IP网络已经发展成为一个非常复杂的分布式系统，在路由器和交换机上具有控制协议和转发平面机制。IP网络协议和转发平面机制一直在变化，以满足用户应用需求和操作环境。然而，一直以来，在IP网络的控制和管理方面并没有取得重大进展，本文的研究目标有两个方面：第一，通过提高网络状态的可见性来提高IP网络的控制和管理能力，共享来自控制和转发平面的信息，并运行一组用于智能决策的算法来促进配置管理。第二，拟议的研究将解决下一代安全的，流量工程和虚拟网络的控制和管理要求的基础上已经开发的机制和新定义的操作和管理架构。

Over the years, the IP network has grown to a very complex distributed system with control protocols and forwarding plane mechanisms at routers and switches. IP networking protocols and forwarding plane mechanisms are changing all the time to address user application requirements and operating environments. However, all this time there was no significant advancement in control and management of IP networks.The objective of the proposed research is two fold:  First, to improve control and management capabilities of IP networks using improved visibility of network states, share information from control and forwarding planes, and run a set of algorithms for intelligent decision making to facilitate configuration management. Second, the proposed research will address control and management requirements of next generation secured, traffic engineered and virtual networks based on already developed mechanisms and newly defined operations and management architectures.