Smart communications network management: Delivering bundled interdependent services across internetworked heterogeneous domains

Funding: 2008: $55,000
2009: $100,000
2010: $85,000
2011: $40,000

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Linkage Projects)
Alcatel Australia

Start year: 2008

Summary: Demands on communications networks to support bundled, interdependent communications services (data, voice, video) are increasing in complexity. New smart techniques are required to meet this demand. The smart management of interdependent services will require both embedded intelligence and up-to-the-millisecond delivery of performance information. This project will design information acquisition and distribution technologies, and smart decision-making agents to: negotiate service level agreements for complex bundles, provision appropriate services and manage the operation of those services so as to deliver the agreed service quality. Methods from this project will be trialled and validated in the partner s commercial networks.'

Publications:

Mearns, H & Leaney, J 1970, 'The Use of Autonomic Management in Multi-provider Telecommunication Services', 2013 20th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS), 2013 20th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS), IEEE, Scottsdale, USA, pp. 129-138.
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Mearns, H, Leaney, J, Parakhine, A, Debenham, J & Verchere, D 1970, 'CARMA: Complete Autonomous Responsible Management Agents for Telecommunications and Inter-cloud Services', 2012 IEEE NETWORK OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT SYMPOSIUM (NOMS), IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, IEEE, Maui, USA, pp. 1089-1095.
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Mearns, H, Leaney, J, Parakhine, A, Debenham, J & Verchere, D 1970, 'An Autonomic Open Marketplace for Inter-Cloud Service Management', 2011 Fourth IEEE International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, 2011 IEEE 4th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011), IEEE, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 186-193.
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Mearns, H, Leaney, J, Parakhine, A, Debenham, J & Verchere, D 1970, 'An autonomic open marketplace for service management and resilience', 2011 7th International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2011, International Conference on Network and Service Management, IEEE, Paris, France, pp. 1-5.

Mearns, H, Leaney, J & Verchere, D 1970, 'Critique of Network Management Systems and Their Practicality', 2010 Seventh IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, 2010 7th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (EASe), IEEE, Oxford, UK, pp. 51-59.
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Mearns, H, Leaney, J & Verchere, D 1970, 'The Architectural Evolution of Telecommunications Network Management Systems', 2010 17th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Engineering of Computer Based Systems, 2010 17th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Engineering of Computer Based Systems, IEEE, Oxford, England, pp. 281-285.
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Keywords: Network Management, Bundled service level agreements, Intelligent Agents, Data Mining,

FOR Codes: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing, Telecommunications, Computer Communications Networks, Information Systems Management, Fixed Line Data Networks and Services, Network engineering, Satisfiability and optimisation, Information systems organisation and management, Network systems and services

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.