CMIP based Light MIB: Design & Implementation

Various protocols have been proposed and developed to manage communication networks efficiently, which are becoming increasingly complex. Of those protocols, SNMP has been popular because it is easy to implement and widely available. However, it has problems in terms of scalability and security. CMIP is a good alternative to SNMP, and OSI MIB provides diverse features to model complex communication networks effectively. But CMIP has a large amount of overhead, operating on top of the 7 layer OSI protocol, and OSI MIB is hard to implement and complex to maintain. We present in this paper a Light MIB with a simple naming rule that carries a smaller overhead than the regular OSI MIB. The Light MIB reduces the amount of management information and network traffic, enhances performance, and allows easy implementation and management. We also apply the Light MIB to the model of the Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) as an example.