SIMP: A Simple Infrastructure Management Protocol for Infrastructure Monitoring and Management

The infrastructure networks of greatest importance to national security and stability include telecommunications, electrical power systems, gas and oil, banking and finance, transportation, water supply systems, government and emergency services. After the September 11, 2001 WTC attack, more sensors and surveillance systems are being deployed to monitor these critical infrastructures. While these efforts are essential for the security of individual infrastructures, there has been little concern about how to share these heterogeneous sensor data in real time among our very large, highly interdependent, complex and dynamic infrastructure networks. Inspired by the popularity of the SNMP in network management, in this paper, we derive and propose a Simple Infrastructure Management Protocol (SIMP) for Critical Infrastructure Monitoring and Management. Index terms Infrastructure Assurance, Information Sharing, Management Protocol, Distributed System, Monitoring and Management