Policy-constrained bio-inspired processes for autonomic route management

Balasubramaniam, Sasitharan and Botvich, Dmitri and Jennings, Brendan and Davy, Steven and Donnelly, William and Strassner, John (2009) Policy-constrained bio-inspired processes for autonomic route management. Computer Networks, 53 (10). pp. 1666-1682. ISSN 1389-1286

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Abstract

Autonomic networking systems must be designed to achieve an appropriate balance between the operation of decentralized algorithms and processes that seek to maintain optimal or near-optimal behavior in terms of global stability, improved performance and adaptability, robustness and security, with the requirement for top-down control of the system by humans to ensure business goals are met. Taking a communications networking survivability case study, we show how the operation of decentralized algorithms, inspired by the operation of biological systems, can be controlled and constrained through the deployment of management policies authored by network administrators. We present survivability-related routing algorithms (inspired by chemotaxis, reaction-diffusion and quorum sensing biological processes) which work together to effectively reconfigure network resources when transient link failures occur and demonstrate how these algorithms can be re-parameterized via policies to improve performance given prevailing network conditions. Simulation results show how the combined operation of these algorithms, as controlled by policies, allows the network to react well to survive link failure events.

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Additional Information:	Funding Information: We wish to acknowledge the valuable insights provided by Nazim Agoulmine, and the work on prototype design and implementation carried out by Keara Barrett, Alan Davy, and Elyes Lehtihet. Special thanks also to Julien Mineraud for performing the simulation work. This work has received support from Science Foundation Ireland under the “Autonomic Management of Communications Networks and Services” award (Grant No. 04/IN3/I404C).
Uncontrolled Keywords:	/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1700/1705
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Date Deposited:	19 Oct 2022 23:08
Last Modified:	04 Jul 2023 20:00
URI:	http://repository-testing.wit.ie/id/eprint/4238

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