Lecture Notes

The course is not based on a specific textbook. For an introduction into SNMP, which covers only a part of the course, we recommend William Stallings: SNMP, SNMPv2, SNMPv3, and RMON 1 and 2, Addison-Wesley Pub Co; ISBN: 0201485346; 3rd edition (1998).

For an introduction into network management for practitioners, we recommend Alex Clemm: Network Management Fundamentals, Cisco Press, 2006. This book holds a good balance between explaining concepts and technology.

1 Introduction

• Lecture slides (pdf) last modified: March 25, 2008.

2 SNMP-A Management Protocol and Framework

• Lecture slides (pdf) last modified: Sept 24, 2008.
• Reading assignment: chapters 4-7 from William Stallings: SNMP, SNMPv2, SNMPv3, and RMON 1 and 2, Addison-Wesley Pub Co; ISBN: 0201485346; 3rd edition (1998).
• Assignment 2.2 with solution (pdf) last modified: March 20, 2008.

3 Distributed Management

• Lecture slides (pdf) last modified: Sept 7, 2008.
• Reading assignment: C. Adam, K.S. Lim and R. Stadler: “Decentralizing Network Management”, KTH Technical Report, December 2005. (Sections II and III.)
• M. Dam and R. Stadler: “A generic protocol for network state aggregation,” RVK 05, Linköping, Sweden, June 14-16, 2005. (Sections 1 and 3.)
• Assignment 3.2 with solution (pdf) last modified: April 16, 2007.
• Assignment 3.3 with solution (pdf) last modified: May 23, 2007.
• Further study (optional): F. Wuhib, M. Dam, R. Stadler: “Decentralized Detection of Global Threshold Crossings Using Aggregation Trees,” Computer Networks, to appear.
• Further study (optional): A. Gonzalez Prieto, R. Stadler: “A-GAP: An Adaptive Protocol for Continuous Network Monitoring with Accuracy Objectives,” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), Vol. 4, No. 1, June 2007.

4 Internet QoS Management

• Lecture slides (pdf) last modified: April 22, 2008.
• Reading assignment: Study section 2 (except 2.3) and section 4.1 in M.C. Chan, G. Pacifici and R. Stadler, "Managing multimedia network services," Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM), Vol. 5, No. 3, 1997.
• Further study: DiffServ management: Jae-Young Kim, Won-Ki Hong, Sook-Hyun Ryu and Tae-Sang Choi, "Constructing End-to-End Traffic Flows for Managing Differentiated Services Networks", Proc. of the 11th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2000), Austin, TX, USA, December 2000, pp. 83-94.
• Further study: Schedulable region and L-E model: M.C. Chan, G. Pacifici and R. Stadler, "Managing multimedia network services," Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM), Vol. 5, No. 3, 1997.
• In-depth treatment of schedulable region concept: Hyman, J.M.; Lazar, A.A.; Pacifici, G.:”A separation principle between scheduling and admission control for broadband switching,” Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on , Volume: 11 Issue: 4 , May 1993, pp. 605 –616.

5 Performance Management for Web Services

• Lecture slides (pdf) last modified: April 29, 2008.
• Further study: Goldszmidt, G.; Hunt, G. : “Scaling Internet services by dynamic allocation of connections,” Proceedings of the Sixth IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, 1999, pp. 171 –184. There are differences in terminology between lecture and paper, most important: Address Dispatcher (lecture) stands for Network Dispatcher (paper); Legislator (lecture) stands for Manager (paper).
• Further study: R. Levy et al: ”Performance Management for cluster-based web services,” Eighth IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2003), Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, March 24-28, 2003.
• Further study: C. Adam and R. Stadler: “A Middleware Design for Large-scale Clusters Offering Multiple Services,” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), vol. 3, no. 1, 2006.

6 Policy-based Management

• Lecture slides (pdf) last modified: May 6, 2008.
• D.C. Verma: ”Simplifying Network Administration Using Policy-based Management,” IEEE Network, March/April 2002.
• E.S. Al-Shaer and H.H. Hamed: ”Modeling and Management of Firewall Policies,” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNMS), Second Quarter 2004.