On Declarative Policy Management of Network Communication Systems
The IEEE Communications Society and BACM are co-sponsoring a lecture on policy management of network communication systems by Filip Perich on Tuesday, March 3rd.
Title:
On Declarative Policy Management of Network Communication Systems
Speaker: Filip Perich
When: Tuesday, March 3, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Where: National Electronics Museum
(formerly the Historical Electronics Museum)
Abstract:
We describe the design and report on experience fielding an end-to-end
framework for declarative policy management of network communication
systems. Our approach addresses two fundamental problems: the
expensive manual involvement and the intriguing complexity of
maintaining aspects of network communication systems. We overcome the
challenges by defining a declarative policy language, which aids in
automating network management, and by delegating management tasks to
policy software components embedded within networking components. The
language enables each authority to draft network requirement policies
at a user-friendly abstraction level. Each authority defines only
objectives and constraints relevant to its needs. The defined
information is hardware, software, and protocol independent. The
authorities do not focus on writing procedures for configuring a
specific infrastructure; instead they focus on describing a generic
infrastructure and its features. The policy software components
present within or in a reachable vicinity of each networking component
employ the policies, which are dynamically merged from applicable
authorities, to collaboratively compute steps necessary to reach a
desired configuration state and subsequently execute the steps at
run-time, thus avoiding long time-to-deployment periods as well as
automatically removing configuration inconsistencies. We report on
our field framework experimentation of employing the framework for
spectrum access control, illustrating the capability offered to
network communication systems, their command & control management, and
individual radios for enforcing spectrum access policies while
enabling the radios to fully utilize available spectrum in comparison
to traditional, static-assignment spectrum access methods.
Bio:
Dr. Filip Perich is a Software Functional Manager and Senior Software
Engineer at Shared Spectrum Company (SSC) and an Adjunct Assistant
Professor at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). At SSC
Dr. Perich is leading military-sponsored R&D efforts on intelligent
dynamic spectrum access systems and R&D efforts on intelligent network
management systems controlled by declarative policies. Concurrently,
at UMBC Dr. Perich continues his prior research on pervasive
computing. His primary focus is in applications of Data Management
and Artificial Intelligence to problems in distributed systems,
particularly with an emphasis on wireless mobile / pervasive ad hoc
networks. Dr. Perich is an author of over thirty refereed
publications. He is professionally active in advising graduate
students, serving on Ph.D. committees, and in organizing conferences
and workshops on Artificial Intelligence, Data Management, E-Commerce,
Networks, Security, and Semantic Web. Dr. Perich received Ph.D. and
M.S. degrees in Computer Science from UMBC, and a B.A. degree in
Mathematics from Washington College in Maryland.
The talk will be preceded by refreshments and a light dinner at 5:30 pm.
If you would like to attend, please notify Prof. Curtis Menyuk by email to menyuk@umbc.edu with a copy to volcheck@acm.org . Indicate whether you will arrive for dinner.
Directions:
http://www.hem-usa.org
Read the IEEE announcement.