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Distributed control of performance management traffic with accuracy objectives
Author(s) -
Jagadish Chundury,
Gonsalves Timothy A.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
international journal of network management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1099-1190
pISSN - 1055-7148
DOI - 10.1002/nem.722
Subject(s) - computer science , data collection , network management , network monitoring , data mining , control (management) , network traffic control , real time computing , state (computer science) , operations research , computer network , statistics , artificial intelligence , algorithm , mathematics , network packet , engineering
One of the important functions of a network management system (NMS) is performance management (PM). PM deals with collecting statistical information to track the effectiveness and utilization of the network and network elements (NE). While this may be done offline, it is often necessary to monitor the network statistics online in real time. The aim of real‐time monitoring is to achieve high accuracy of the statistics while minimizing the use of scarce network bandwidth. The accuracy objective can vary depending on the priority and dynamic severity state of the NE. We define cost, which needs to be optimized, as a function of network traffic and achieved accuracy. Based on the cost, a comparison of push and pull data collection alternatives is done. We have developed a push‐based distributed data collection system that tunes the accuracy objectives, based on the network traffic and the dynamic severity state of the NE. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.