Deutsch Intern
Chair of Computer Science III

AutoMon (funded by Eurongi)

AutoMon


Research Project financed by

Project Team

Heads

Kurt Tutschku,

Markus Fiedler (Blekinge Institute of Technology),

Stefan Köhler (Infosim),

Researchers

Andreas Binzenhöfer,

Björn auf dem Graben,

Stefan Chevul,

Matthias Schmid


Summary

In order to facilitate a cost-efficient operation of QoS-providing IP networks, the future QoS control mechanisms have to be realized in a more autonomous way than today. The concept of Autonomic Computing (AC) has recently gained tremendous attention in the industry. Autonomic Computing is an approach towards self-managed computing systems with a minimum of human interference. AC comprises four functional domains: self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, and self-protection. In this project we take the self-optimizing concept of AC and extend it to the idea of autonomic QoS monitoring in IP net-works. The goal is to have a self-organizing management overlay of Distributed Network Agents (DNAs) for distributed service surveillance.

The main objectives are:

  1. Specification of a distributed, self-organizing and autonomic IP QoS monitoring framework which is based on Distributed Hash Tables. The specification includes a QoS feed-back interface for service providers.

  2. Evaluation of the performance of the peer-to-peer mechanisms for maintaining the monitoring overlay. The mechanism has to be investigated with respect to its scalability and reliability under stochastic conditions, i.e. with regard to the non-deterministic behaviour of the transport network and the end users.

  3. Analysis of applicability and accuracy of generic end-to-end performance metrics with regard to user-perceived Quality of Service.

  4. Implementation of a concept demonstrator by the participating SME which uses the .net environment in order to show the commercial viability of the approach. 

Publications

  • Measurement and Analysis of Skype VoIP Traffic in 3G UMTS Systems. Hoßfeld, Tobias. 4th International Workshop on Internet Performance, Simulation, Monitoring and Measurement, IPS-MoMe 2006, Salzburg, Austria, 2006, February 27.
  • Measurement and Analysis of Skype VoIP Traffic in 3G UMTS Systems. Hoßfeld, Tobias; Binzenhöfer, Andreas; Fiedler, Markus; Tutschku, Kurt. In 4th International Workshop on Internet Performance, Simulation, Monitoring and Measurement (IPS-MoMe 2006). Salzburg, Austria, 2006.
  • A Self-Organizing Concept for Distributed End-to-End Quality Monitoring. Technical Report (378), . Chevul, Stefan; Binzenhöfer, Andreas; Schmid, Matthias; Tutschku, Kurt; Fiedler, Markus. University of Wuerzburg, 2006.
  • A P2P-based Framework for Distributed Network Management. Binzenhöfer, Andreas; Tutschku, Kurt; auf dem Graben, Björn; Fiedler, Markus; Arlos, Patrik. In New Trends in Network Architectures and Services, LNCS 3883. Loveno di Menaggio, Como, Italy, 2006.
  • The Throughput Utility Function: Assessing Network Impact on Mobile Services. Fiedler, Markus; Tutschku, Kurt; Chevul, Stefan; Isaksson, Lennart; Binzenhöfer, Andreas. In New Trends in Network Architectures and Services, LNCS 3883. Loveno di Menaggio, Como, Italy, 2006.
  • Measurement and Analysis of Skype VoIP Traffic in 3G UMTS Systems. Technical Report (377), . Hoßfeld, Tobias; Binzenhöfer, Andreas; Fiedler, Markus; Tutschku, Kurt. University of Wuerzburg, 2005.
  • The Throughput Utility Function: Assessing Network Impact on Mobile Services. Technical Report (375), . Fiedler, Markus; Tutschku, Kurt; Chevul, Stefan; Isaksson, Lennart; Binzenhöfer, Andreas. University of Wuerzburg, 2005.
  • The Network Utility Function: A Practicable Concept for Assessing Network Impact on Distributed Services. Radtke, Olaf; Fiedler, Markus; Binzenhöfer, Andreas; Chevul, Stefan; Tutschku, Kurt. In 19th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC19). Beijing, China, 2005.
  • The Network Utility Function: A Practicable Concept for Assessing Network Impact on Distributed Services. Technical Report (355), . Radtke, Olaf; Chevul, Stefan; Binzenhöfer, Andreas; Tutschku, Kurt; Fiedler, Markus. University of Wuerzburg, 2005.
  • DNA: A p2p-based Framework for Distributed Network Management. Binzenhöfer, Andreas; Tutschku, Kurt; auf dem Graben, Björn. In Peer-to-Peer-Systeme und -Anwendungen. GI/ITG-Workshop in Kooperation mit KiVS 2005, Kaiserslautern, 2005.
  • DNA: A p2p-based Framework for Distributed Network Management. Binzenhöfer, Andreas. Peer-to-Peer-Systeme und -Anwendungen, GI/ITG-Workshop in Kooperation mit KiVS 2005, Kaiserslautern, 2005, March.
  • A P2P-based Framework for Distributed Network Management. Technical Report (351), . Binzenhöfer, Andreas; Tutschku, Kurt; auf dem Graben, Björn; Fiedler, Markus; Carlsson, Patrik. University of Wuerzburg, 2005.