Experience Applying Policy-Based Techniques to Traffic Management in Low-Bandwidth Heterogeneous Networks
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Labbe, Isabelle; St-Onge, Francis; Kidston, David; Roy, Jean-Francois
- Source
- 2007 Second International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications (ICSNC 2007) Systems and Networks Communications, 2007. ICSNC 2007. Second International Conference on. :61-61 Aug, 2007
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Telecommunication traffic
Bandwidth
Environmental management
Resource management
Web services
Prototypes
Traffic control
Virtual prototyping
Laboratories
Testing
- Language
- ISSN
- 2163-9019
2163-9027
Maritime at sea networks are particularly difficult to manage due to their dynamic and heterogeneous low-bandwidth links. The policy-based network management (PBNM) approach offers techniques to automate network management. It allows operators to dynamically change the behaviour of managed systems in response to evolving operational needs without requiring per device intervention. A research effort was initiated to investigate the effective management of communication resources in a tactical maritime environment using a combination of Web Services (WS) and policy-based techniques. A management architecture was developed and an experimental prototype was implemented. This paper presents the implementation of the Policy-Based Traffic Management (PBTM) prototype and its demonstration in a laboratory using a simulated naval task deployment testbed. Observations on the performance of the policy system are provided.