Name
Abstract | ||
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Network management and operations are complicated, tedious, and error-prone, requiring signifcant human involvement and domain knowledge. As the complexity involved inevitably grows due to larger scale networks and more complex protocol features, human operators are increasingly short-handed, despite the best effort from existing support systems to make it otherwise. This paper presents coolaid, a system under which the domain knowledge of device vendors and service providers is formally captured by a declarative language. Through effcient and powerful rule-based reasoning on top of a database-like abstraction over a network of devices, coolaid enables new management primitives to perform network-wide reasoning, prevent misconfguration, and automate network confguration, while requiring minimum operator effort. We describe the design and prototype implementation of coolaid, and demonstrate its effectiveness and scalability through various realistic network management tasks. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2010 | 10.1145/1921168.1921176 | CoNEXT |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
dynamic network,network management,human operator,declarative configuration management,automate network confguration,minimum operator effort,best effort,larger scale network,new management primitive,various realistic network management,domain knowledge,network-wide reasoning,configuration management,service provider,rule based reasoning | Domain knowledge,Computer science,Element management system,Service provider,Operator (computer programming),Declarative programming,Configuration management,Network management,Distributed computing,Scalability | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
34 | 1.83 | 27 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xu Chen | 1 | 334 | 19.54 |
| Yun Mao | 2 | 34 | 1.83 |
| Zhuoqing Morley Mao | 3 | 5719 | 363.11 |
| Jacobus E. Van Der Merwe | 4 | 1706 | 217.92 |