Management of Large IP Networks - IPMAN
Telecommunications Software and Multimedia Laboratory started
IPMAN project in March 1999. The project lasts for two years and is funded
by TEKES and industry partners Nokia Networks
and Open Environment Software. The
project will end by the end of the year 2000.
Introduction
The objective of the IPMAN-project is to do research on how the
increase of IP traffic affects the network architecture and especially the
network management. In the future there will be an explosion in data
volumes - new Internet related services enable more customers added with
more interactions with customers and more data per interaction.
The solution of this problem is important for the business world as
networks and distributed processing systems have become critical success
factors. As networks have become larger and more complex, automated
network management is needed to ease the network management.
In IPMAN-project the network management has been divided into four levels:
Network Element Management, Traffic Management, Service
Management and Content Management. The network element
management is concerned with managing individual network elements in
the IP network. The second level, traffic management, intends to manage
the network so that expected traffic properties are achieved. Service
management manages service applications and platforms. The upmost level,
content management, deals with managing the content provided by the
service applications. The project concentrates on studying content
management level.
Personnel
The project is directed by professor Hannu Kari.
Stiina Ylänen works as the project
manager.
Former personnel
- Jaakko Akkanen
- Jouni Karvo
- Tuomas Lilja
- Alexey Mednonogov
- Lasse Metso
- Petri Savolainen
- Toni Suihko
- Liisa Uosukainen
Results
Publications of IPMAN Project
IPMAN internal