The meta-policy information base

Polyrakis, A; Boutaba, R

dc.contributor.author	Polyrakis, A	en
dc.contributor.author	Boutaba, R	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T01:18:25Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T01:18:25Z
dc.date.issued	2002	en
dc.identifier.issn	0890-8044	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/14998
dc.subject	Computer Network	en
dc.subject	Configuration Management	en
dc.subject	Device Independence	en
dc.subject	Policy Enforcement	en
dc.subject	Policy Rules	en
dc.subject	policy-based networking	en
dc.subject	Service Provision	en
dc.subject	Common Open Policy Service	en
dc.subject.classification	Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture	en
dc.subject.classification	Computer Science, Information Systems	en
dc.subject.classification	Engineering, Electrical & Electronic	en
dc.subject.classification	Telecommunications	en
dc.title	The meta-policy information base	en
heal.type	journalArticle	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1109/65.993222	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/65.993222	en
heal.language	English	en
heal.publicationDate	2002	en
heal.abstract	The recent considerable growth of computer networks has revealed significant scalability and efficiency limitations to the traditional management techniques. Policy-based networking (PBN) has emerged as a promising paradigm for configuration management and service provisioning. The Common Open Policy Service ( COPS) and its extension for policy provisioning (COPS-PR) are currently being developed as the protocols to implement PBN. COPS-PR has received significant attention and seems efficient for several management areas. However, the rigidify of its policy-enforcing mechanisms constrains the intelligence that can be pushed toward the managed devices, This work aims at relaxing this limitation by using meta-policies, rules that enforce the appropriate policies on e devices. Meta-policies are stored and processed by the devices, independent of their semantics, thus making the model more efficient, Scalable, distributed, and robust. The additional functionality is implemented through a novel policy information base we have defined, the Meta-Policy PIB.	en
heal.publisher	IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC	en
heal.journalName	IEEE NETWORK	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1109/65.993222	en
dc.identifier.isi	ISI:000174628000007	en
dc.identifier.volume	16	en
dc.identifier.issue	2	en
dc.identifier.spage	40	en
dc.identifier.epage	48	en