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The trend in the telecommunications industry towards the provision of IP-based services over large-scale networks creates new challenges in network management. In particular, network managers require the ability to flexibly reconfigure the network. This necessitates enhancements to existing network management techniques, and in particular we require a mechanism for enforcing the atomicity of reconfiguration changes that is robust in the face of network failures. Fortunately, atomic commit protocols have already been developed for achieving atomicity in distributed transaction processing. We demonstrate how this technology can be transferred to network configuration management. We also examine the ways in which atomic commit protocols can benefit from new telecommunications services.
This research was supported by EPSRC grant GR/L74798.
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Kempster, T., Brebner, G., Thanisch, P. (2000). A Transactional Approach to Configuring Telecommunications Services. In: Jonker, W. (eds) Databases in Telecommunications. DBTel 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1819. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10721056_4
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