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

Results

Publications of IPMAN Project

IPMAN internal