TY - GEN
T1 - A policy authoring process and DEN-ng model extension for federation governance
AU - Barron, Jason
AU - Davy, Steven
AU - Jennings, Brendan
AU - Strassner, John
N1 - Funding Information:
This work has been funded by the Science Foundation Ireland via the FAME strategic research cluster (http://www.fame.ie), grant no. 08/SRC/I1403.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - To support rapidly evolving business models, communications network management systems are increasingly being federated to provide more flexible, end-to-end service management. In the future, such federation will need to be achieved dynamically, thus management systems will need to incorporate capabilities supporting negotiation of federations and management of their lifecycle. We discuss how federations can be governed via negotiated federation-level policies, that should be consistent with the relevant local policies of individual federation members. We describe a policy authoring process, outlining the steps to be taken when local or federation-level policies are created, modified or withdrawn. As this process depends on the presence of a rich system model for policy analysis we describe an extension to DEN-ng that models governance of federated domains. Finally, we outline a case study relating to inter-organisation XMPP federations to illustrate the policy authoring process.
AB - To support rapidly evolving business models, communications network management systems are increasingly being federated to provide more flexible, end-to-end service management. In the future, such federation will need to be achieved dynamically, thus management systems will need to incorporate capabilities supporting negotiation of federations and management of their lifecycle. We discuss how federations can be governed via negotiated federation-level policies, that should be consistent with the relevant local policies of individual federation members. We describe a policy authoring process, outlining the steps to be taken when local or federation-level policies are created, modified or withdrawn. As this process depends on the presence of a rich system model for policy analysis we describe an extension to DEN-ng that models governance of federated domains. Finally, we outline a case study relating to inter-organisation XMPP federations to illustrate the policy authoring process.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-16836-9_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-16836-9_7
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78649843864
SN - 3642168353
SN - 9783642168352
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 73
EP - 86
BT - Modelling Autonomic Communication Environments - 5th IEEE International Workshop, MACE 2010, Proceedings
Y2 - 28 October 2010 through 28 October 2010
ER -