An NMS Architecture for Large-scale Networks

One of the key characteristics of the contemporary network is its scale. The cloud data center network, which is considered as a key component of the current Internet, is normally composed of tens of thousands of devices. Besides, networks which connect data centers and their users are getting larger and becoming more complex because of the growing bandwidth requirement and user demands. This paper suggests a novel network management software architecture, which is suitable to manage such large-scale networks in a scalable and highly available manner. The software architecture has been designed based on consistent hashing. In this paper, we provide a formal definition of the software architecture, and evaluation results to show its feasibility.