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AutoMon Project Team

Team LeadersKurt Tutschku (Contact)
Markus Fiedler
(Blekinge Institute of Technology)
Stefan Köhler, Infosim
Research Andreas Binzenhöfer
Björn auf dem Graben
Stefan Chevul
Matthias Schmid

Latest News

Added Slides of two talks about the project at 27.01.06
Paper list updated on 22.12.05 with papers accepted for publication in the Proceeding of the EuroNGI Integration Workshop IA.8.2 on New Service Architectures (published as a volume of Lecture Nodes on Computer Science, pdfs will be available soon)
Paper released on 01.12.05
M. Fiedler, S. Chevul, L. Isaksson, K. Tutschku, A. Binzenhöfer.
The Throughput Utility Function: Assesing Network Impact on Mobile Services
presented at the EuroNGI IA.8.2 Workshop, Lake Como, July 2005.
Available as Technical Report No. 375, November 2005.
[PDF (161 kB)]

Summary

In order to facilitate a cost-efficient operation of QoS-providing IP networks, the future QoS control mechanisms have to be realized in a more autonomous way than today. The concept of Autonomic Computing (AC) has recently gained tremendous attention in the industry. Autonomic Computing is an approach towards self-managed computing systems with a minimum of human interference. AC comprises four functional domains: self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, and self-protection. In this project we take the self-optimizing concept of AC and extend it to the idea of autonomic QoS monitoring in IP net-works. The goal is to have a self-organizing management overlay of Distributed Network Agents (DNAs) for distributed service surveillance.

The main objectives are:
  1. Specification of a distributed, self-organizing and autonomic IP QoS monitoring framework which is based on Distributed Hash Tables. The specification includes a QoS feed-back interface for service providers.
  2. Evaluation of the performance of the peer-to-peer mechanisms for maintaining the monitoring overlay. The mechanism has to be investigated with respect to its scalability and reliability under stochastic conditions, i.e. with regard to the non-deterministic behaviour of the transport network and the end users.
  3. Analysis of applicability and accuracy of generic end-to-end performance metrics with regard to user-perceived Quality of Service.
  4. Implementation of a concept demonstrator by the participating SME which uses the .net environment in order to show the commercial viability of the approach.

Talks

  1. Markus Fiedler
    A Self-organising P2P-based Framework for Distributed Network Management
    19th NMRG Meeting Stockholm, January 12-13, 2006
    [Download PDF]
  2. Andreas Binzenhoefer
    A Self-organizing Network Management Concept to Capture User Perceived Service Quality.
    Perspectives Workshop: Autonomic Networking, Dagstuhl, Germany, January 2006.
    [Download PDF]

Papers

  1. Stefan Chevul, Andreas Binzenhoefer, Matthias Schmid, Kurt Tutschku and Markus Fiedler
    A Self-Organizing Concept for Distributed End-to-End Quality Monitoring.
    submitted to the 2nd EuroNGI Conference on Next Generation Internet Design and Engineering
  2. Tobias Hoßfeld, Andreas Binzenhöfer, Markus Fiedler, Kurt Tutschku.
    Measurement and Analysis of Skype VoIP Traffic in 3G UMTS Systems.
    Technical Report No. 377, December 2005.
    [PDF (405 kB)]
  3. Andreas Binzenhöfer, Kurt Tutschku, Björn auf dem Graben, Markus Fiedler and Patrik Arlos.
    A P2P-based Framework for Distributed Network Management.
    New Trends in Network Architectures and Services, LNCS, Loveno di Menaggio, Como, Italy, 2006.
    Available as Conference Article No. 208 [PDF]. Please contact
    Tobias Hoßfeld     for passwords.
  4. Markus Fiedler, Kurt Tutschku, Stefan Chevul, Lennart Isaksson and Andreas Binzenhöfer.
    The Throughput Utility Function: Assessing Network Impact on Mobile Services.
    New Trends in Network Architectures and Services, LNCS, Loveno di Menaggio, Como, Italy, 2006.
    Available as Conference Article No. 209 [PDF].
    Please contact Tobias Hoßfeld for passwords.
  5. M. Fiedler, S. Chevul, L. Isaksson, K. Tutschku, A. Binzenhöfer.
    The Throughput Utility Function: Assesing Network Impact on Mobile Devices
    presented at the EuroNGI IA.8.2 Workshop, Lake Como, July 2005.
    Available as Technical Report No. 375, November 2005.
    [PDF (161 kB)]
  6. M. Fiedler, S. Chevul, O. Radtke, K. Tutschku, A. Binzenhöfer.
    The Network Utility Function: A Practicable Concept for Assessing Network Impact on Distributed Services.
    presented at ITC-19, Beijing, August-September 2005.
    Available as Technical Report No. 355, April 2005.
    [PDF (326 kB)] [Bibtex]
  7. Andreas Binzenhöfer, Kurt Tutschku, Björn auf dem Graben.
    DNA A P2p-based Framework for Distributed Network Management.
    Peer-to-Peer-Systeme und -Anwendungen, GI/ITG-Workshop in Kooperation mit KiVS 2005, Kaiserslautern, March 2005.
    [Bibtex]
  8. Andreas Binzenhöfer, Kurt Tutschku, Björn auf dem Graben, Markus Fiedler, Patrik Carlsson.
    A P2P-based Framework for Distributed Network Management.
    Available as Technical Report No. 351, January 2005.
    [PDF (104 kB)] [Bibtex]