Paper Info
Title
Fault-Tolerant Architecture for Peer to Peer Network Management Systems
Abstract
In this paper we propose a 3-tier hierarchical architecture which is based on peer to peer model for network management purpose. The main focus of the proposed architecture is provisioning fault tolerance property which in turn leads to increasing the availability of the Network Management System (NMS). In each tier of the architecture we use redundancy to achieve the aforementioned goal. However we do not use redundant peers thus no peer redundancy is imposed to the system. Instead we use some selected peers in several roles and therefore only add some software redundancy which is easily tolerable by advanced processors of NMS's peers. Due to the hierarchal structure failure of nodes in each tier may affect NMS's availability differently. Therefore we examined the effect of failure of peers which play different roles in the architecture on the availability of the system by means of extensive simulation study. The results show that the proposed architecture offers higher availability in comparison to previously proposed peer to peer NMS. It also offered lower sensitivity to failure of nodes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-04190-7_22
NEW2AN
Keywords
Field
DocType
software redundancy,advanced processor,3-tier hierarchical architecture,aforementioned goal,network management system,hierarchal structure failure,peer network management systems,selected peer,redundant peer,higher availability,fault-tolerant architecture,proposed architecture,availability,fault tolerant,network management,management system,fault tolerance
Architecture,Peer-to-peer,Computer network,Provisioning,Redundancy (engineering),Software,Fault tolerance,Network monitoring,Engineering,Network management,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5764
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
16
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maryam Barshan1386.13
Mahmood Fathy248263.71
Saleh Yousefi323020.44