19th NMRG Meeting in Stockholm (Sweden)

The 19th NMRG meeting will be held in Stockholm (Sweden) on January 12-13 2006. The meeting will start at 09:00. The chair of this meeting is Jürgen Schönwälder. The local host of this meeting is KTH. Our contact is Rolf Stadler. The NMRG meeting will be sponsored by the European Network of Excellence for the Management of Internet Technologies and Complex Services (EMANICS) which is funded through the IST program of the European Union.

Scope

The 19th meeting of the Network Management Research Group (NMRG) of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) will focus on two topics:

• Promise Theory (organized by Mark Burgess)

A paper presented at DSOM 2005 introduced a model where nodes in a network cooperate based on promises they make to other nodes. Nodes are considered to be highly autonomous in their decisions but they might promise a certain behavior to others and take benefits of the promises made by other nodes. This model leads to a different view at policies. For the details, see Mark Burgess' DSOM 2005 paper.

• New Approaches to Distributed Management (organized by Rolf Stadler)

The need for network management in large-scale and dynamic network environments calls for solutions beyond traditional management paradigms. Approaches based on network programming, management overlays, p2p computing, as well as distributed aggregation and control schemes, have been recently proposed to engineer management systems that scale beyond 1000s of nodes and are robust regarding topology changes and failures. The second day of the workshop will explore this issue further, investigate whether there are any management-specific building blocks missing, and how massively distributed approaches relate to conventional ones developed in the past. The workshop will include presentations and demonstrations by the management research group at KTH.

The workshop format will be short prepared presentations (15-20 minutes) followed by extensive discussion. The presentations will introduce and survey technologies which are under development and which focus on one of the topics listed above.

Minutes will be taken during the workshop. Some authors/editors will be selected who volunteer to work towards an RFC or some other suitable publication after the workshop which summarizes the state of the art and any insights gained during the workshop.

All interested parties are invited to join the workshop. However, the number of attendees will be limited due to the limited space available and to achieve a productive workshop atmosphere. In case of over subscription, preference will be given to people who are willing to prepare a presentation and to lead a discussion. The list of accepted presentations will be posted on the NMRG meeting web page which will be updated regularly and also contains information about the logistics.

http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/nmrg/meetings/2006/stockholm/

Please contact the meeting chair Jürgen Schönwälder if you plan to join the meeting with a short description how you plan to contribute to a successful workshop.

Agenda

Thursday (2006-01-12)

Friday (2006-01-13)

Reading List

1. M. Burgess: An Approach to Understanding Policy Based on Autonomy and Voluntary Cooperation, 16th IFIP/IEEE Distributed Systems Operations and Management (DSOM 2005), Springer LNCS 3775, Barcelona, Spain, October 2005.
2. A. Gonzalez Prieto, R. Stadler: Distributed Real-time Monitoring with Accuracy Objectives, KTH Technical Report, December 2005.
3. F. Wuhib, A. Clemm, M. Dam, R. Stadler: Decentralized Computation of Threshold Crossing Alerts, 16th IFIP/IEEE Distributed Systems Operations and Management (DSOM 2005), Springer LNCS 3775, Barcelona, Spain, October 2005.
4. K.S. Lim and R. Stadler: Real-time views of network traffic using decentralized management, 9th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2005), IEEE, Nice, France, May 16-19, 2005.

Additional material is available on Rolf Stadler's web site.

Slides

• An Introduction to Promise Theory (Mark Burgess)
• Econometric Promise Theory (Mark Burgess)
• Reflections on Promise Theory using Prototyping (Kyrre Begnum)
• A Smart Mall Scenario Using Promise Theory (Siri Fagernes)
• Traditional Approaches to Distributed Management (Jürgen Schönwälder)
• New Approaches to Distributed Management to Achieve Scalability and Robustness (Rolf Stadler)
• Distributed Real-time Monitoring with Accuracy Objectives (Alberto Gonzalez)
• Distributed Interdomain Management: Domain Composition (Robert Szabo)
• Distributed Configuration and Load Balancing in Wireless Networks (Giorgio Nunzi)
• A Self-organising P2P-based Framework for Distributed Network Management (Markus Fiedler, Matthias Schmid)

Participants

1. Laurent Andrey (LORIA-INRIA, France)
2. Javier Baliosian (Ericsson, Ireland)
3. Kyrre Begnum (University College Oslo, Norway)
4. Mark Burgess (University College Oslo, Norway)
5. Guillaume Doyen (LORIA-INRIA, France)
6. Alberto Gonzalez (KTH, Sweden)
7. Lisandro Granville (Federal University Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
8. Siri Fagernes (University College Oslo, Norway)
9. Olivier Festor (LORIA-INRIA, France)
10. Markus Fiedler (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
11. Johan Nielsen (Ericsson, Sweden)
12. Giorgio Nunzi (NEC Europe, Germany)
13. Aiko Pras (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
14. Matthias Schmid (Infosim, Würzburg, Germany)
15. Jürgen Schönwälder (International University Bremen, Germany)
16. Rolf Stadler (KTH, Sweden)
17. Radu State (LORIA-INRIA, France)
18. Heimir Sverrisson (Reykjavik University, Iceland)
19. Robert Szabo (BUTE, Hungary)
20. Bert Wijnen (Lucent Technologies)

Photo

Below is a photo which we took on Friday while walking over to the building where we did pickup our lunch.