Abstract:
Autonomic Communications have attracted huge attention recently for telecommunication network management in the European Network Research Community. The aim of this research is to propose an Object-oriented O:MIB structure to replace current MIB architecture and establish a way of enabling O:XML technology into autonomic communications more efficiently with such abilities as autonomy, scalability, adaptation as well as simplicity for management application in complex networks. The autonomic features such as self-configuring, selfadapting, self-limiting, self-preserving, self-healing, self-protecting and selfoptimizing are able to be integrated into proposed O:XML-based agent framework. This paper presents an experiment that evaluates the performances of O:MIBs in terms of the loss rate, link utilization, management polling with regards to the congestion avoidance process. Simulation results show that O:MIBs provide compatibility with existing MIBs and is proved it is an efficient extension over traditional SNMP MIB approach in a view that the workload of manager is greatly reduced. We conclude this end-to-end approach maintains self-managing capability, easy-toimplement scalability by involving heterogeneous smart algorithms for variant tasks.
