Gestió dinàmica de camins virtuals en xarxes ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) utilitzant agents intel·ligents Dynamic VP Management in ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) networks using Intelligent Agents

................................................................................................................ 5 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND ...................................................................... 6 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................... 6 B-ISDN AND ATM ...................................................................................................... 6 ATM Services ........................................................................................................ 8 ATM cell format...................................................................................................... 8 Protocol Reference Model...................................................................................... 9 Traffic and Congestion Control .............................................................................. 9 VIRTUAL PATH AND VIRTUAL CHANNELS......................................................................11 NETWORK MANAGEMENT ...........................................................................................13 Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) ..............................................15 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)....................................................16 INTELLIGENT AGENTS.................................................................................................18 Agent Architectures ..............................................................................................19 Intelligent Software Agent research and standards ...............................................19 Mobile Agents .......................................................................................................20 PROBLEM SPECIFICATION......................................................................................23 VIRTUAL PATH MANAGEMENT .....................................................................................23 BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT .........................................................................................24 RESTORATION ...........................................................................................................25 SPARE CAPACITY PLANNING.......................................................................................27 PROPOSED MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS.........................................................................27 REVIEW OF LITERATURE.........................................................................................29 NON-DAI SOLUTIONS .................................................................................................29 SOFTWARE AGENTS FOR ATM PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT.......................................31 HYBRID ...................................................................................................................33 LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES WHITE PAPER.......................................................................35 TELE-MACS..............................................................................................................36 IMPACT ...................................................................................................................38 SUMMARY TABLE .......................................................................................................42 THESIS PROPOSAL ..................................................................................................43 PLANNING AND FUTURE WORK .............................................................................48 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS...........................................................................................49 REFERENCES............................................................................................................50 UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATORS (URL)......................................................................55 APPENDIX: PAPER PUBLISHED IN IMPACT’99 ......................................................56