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ProNet: A policy network environment

Pronet: Un environnement de gestion de réseau à base de règles

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Network and business management convergence is seen as the next step towards harmonizing information technology resource allocation with target business goals. This paper proposes a management platform that starts at the specification of business targets in the form of policies and goes all the way to enforcing them in a next generation Quality of Service aware network. We specified both a policy language and a parser and also implemented procedures for mapping policies into underlying network mechanisms. Furthermore, case studies presented in this paper show performance results of network services controlled by such policies.

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La convergence de la gestion des réseaux de communication avec celle des applications est un pas important vers l’adéquation de l’allocation des ressources aux objectifs de l’entreprise. Cet article présente une plateforme de gestion qui comporte la spécification des objectifs applicatifs sous forme de règles qui seront ensuite détaillées et appliquées à des réseaux gérant la qualité de service. Un language de description des règles de gestion et un compilateur ont été spécifiés et des procédures de correspondance entre les règles et les mécanismes de communication ont été implémentées. Des études de cas ont également présentées qui mettent en évidence les performances des réseaux gérés avec ces règles.

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  1. Informatic Center, Federal University of Pernambuco — UFPE, P.O. Box: 7851, ZIP: 50732-970, Recife — PE, Brasil

    Joseane Farias Fidalgo, Djamel Fawzi Hadj Sadok, Judith Kelner & Robson Do Nascimento Fidalgo

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Farias Fidalgo, J., Hadj Sadok, D.F., Kelner, J. et al. ProNet: A policy network environment. Ann. Télécommun. 59, 70–87 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03179675

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