Real-time Database Experiences in Network Management Application

This report discusses on our experiences with real-time databases in the context of a network management system, in particular a MIB (Management Information Base) implementation. We propose an active and real-time MIB (ART-MIB) architecture that utilizes a real-time database system. The ART-MIB contains a variety of modules, such as transactionmanager, task manager, and resource manager. Among the functionalities provided by ART-MIB, we focus on transaction scheduling within a memory based real-time database system. For the developed ART-MIB prototype, we have evaluated two typical real-time transaction scheduling algorithms: earliest deadline rst (EDF) and highest value rst (HVF). The main results of our performance comparison show that EDF outperforms HVF under a low load; however, HVF outperforms EDF in an overload situation. Furthermore, the fact that the performance crossover point closely depends on the magnitude of the scheduler queue, has been validated. This work has been done under direction of Prof. Hector Garcia-Molina, during the author's stay as a visiting scholar in Stanford University (1994-1995).