Towards a Policy-Based Management for Ad Hoc Networks

Quality of Service (QoS) management and provisioning in mobile ad hoc networks (manets) is a challenging task due to the lack of resources residing in the network as well as frequent changes in the network topology. Although a great deal of researches has been done in this area, QoS support for such networks remains an open issue. In this paper, we first propose a specific SLA (Service Level Agreement) for ad hoc networks. This Ad-Hoc-SLA defines user’s network requirements. It is also used to control network resource utilization. Then, we propose an extension of the Policy-Based Network Management (PBNM) system to support Ad-Hoc-SLA specification, negotiation, distribution and enforcement.

[1]  Eric S. Crawley,et al.  A Framework for QoS-based Routing in the Internet , 1998, RFC.

[2]  Keith McCloghrie,et al.  COPS Usage for Policy Provisioning (COPS-PR) , 2001, RFC.

[3]  Nazim Agoulmine,et al.  Policy-based Management of Ad-Hoc Enterprise Networks , 2002 .

[4]  Charles B. Owen,et al.  Factors affecting the performance of ad hoc networks , 2002, 2002 IEEE International Conference on Communications. Conference Proceedings. ICC 2002 (Cat. No.02CH37333).

[5]  Abdur Rahim Choudhary,et al.  Policy-based network management , 2004, Bell Labs Technical Journal.

[6]  Timothy W. Finin,et al.  GSD: a novel group-based service discovery protocol for MANETS , 2002, 4th International Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Communications Network.

[7]  Andrea Westerinen,et al.  Terminology for Policy-Based Management , 2001, RFC.

[8]  Dinesh C. Verma,et al.  Policy-Based Networking: Architecture and Algorithms , 2000 .

[9]  Bo Li,et al.  Resource discovery in mobile ad hoc networks , 2002 .

[10]  Kaustubh S. Phanse.  Policy-Based Quality of Service Management in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks , 2003 .

[11]  Danny Goderis.  Service Level Specification Semantics and Parameters , 2002 .

[12]  Tsuyoshi Murata,et al.  {m , 1934, ACML.

[13]  Christos Bouras,et al.  SLA definition for the provision of an EF-based service , 2002 .

[14]  Luiz A. DaSilva,et al.  Protocol support for policy-based management of mobile ad hoc networks , 2004, 2004 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37507).

[15]  Jim Boyle,et al.  Accept-Ranges : bytes Content-Length : 55967 Connection : close Content-Type : text / plain Internet Draft , 2012 .

[16]  Eliza Varney.  Distributed Management Task Force, Inc , 2010 .

[17]  S. Chakrabarti,et al.  QoS issues in ad hoc wireless networks , 2001, IEEE Commun. Mag..

[18]  W. Hardaker.  Internet Engineering Task Force (ietf) , 2011 .