Efficient Network Routeing |
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| `Towards Next-Generation Inter-AS Routeing' |
Introduction
The Internet currently provides few mechanisms to enable network
operators to exert control over traffic within their networks.
Current protocols provide little support for automation of network
management, leaving the construction and implementation of SLAs, and
the pricing of resources entirely to the network manager.
This project aims to address this problem of efficient IP network
management by the application of pricing to network resource
allocation for aggregates. The goal is to devise schemes allowing
automatic negotiation, selection and monitoring of SLAs subject to
high-level policy descriptions provided by the network manager. Such
algorithms will be investigated and implemented with the context of
current Internet routeing protocols, principally BGP and OSPF.
The project is currently funded for one year, by the Marconi Research
Centre, Cambridge. Project members consist of the principal
investigator, Dr. Ian
Pratt, a lecturer with the University of Cambridge Computer
Laboratory, Systems Research Group; the sponsor, Prof. Derek McAuley,
director of the Marconi Research Centre, Cambridge; and Richard Mortier, a
Ph.D. student with the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory,
Systems Research Group, and the research assistant for the project.
Documents
Efficient Network Routeing (project proposal)
Richard Mortier and Ian Pratt
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