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The development of wideband network services and the new network infrastructures to support them have placed much more requirements on current network management systems. Issues such as scalability, integrity and interoperability have become more important. Existing management systems are not flexible enough to support the provision of Quality of Service (QoS) in these dynamic environments. The concept of Programmable Networks has been proposed to address these requirements. Within this framework, CORBA is regarded as a middleware technology that can enable interoperation among the distributed entities founds in Programmable Networks. By using the basic CORBA environment in a heterogeneous network environment, a network manager is able to control remote Network Elements (NEs) in the same way it controls its local resources. Using this approach both the flexibility and intelligence of the overall network management can be improved. This paper proposes the use of two advanced features of CORBA to enhance the QoS management in a Programmable Network environment. The Transaction Service can be used to manage a set of tasks, whenever the management of elements in a network is correlated; and the Concurrency Service can be used to coordinate multiple accesses on the same network resources. It is also shown in this paper that proper use of CORBA can largely reduce the development and administration of network management applications.
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- Network Element
- Programmable Network
- Common Object Request Broker Architecture
- Deadlock Avoidance
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Gu, Q., Marshall, A. (2002). Using CORBA’s Advanced Services to Enhance the Integrity of QoS Management Programmable Networks. In: Almeroth, K.C., Hasan, M. (eds) Management of Multimedia on the Internet. MMNS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2496. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45812-3_12
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