Technical Sessions

NOMS 2002 Technical Program at a Glance
Track 1 Track 2 Operations, Experience,
and Business Aspects
Tuesday
16 April
10:30 - 12:00 S1: Web-based Management S9: Fault Management & Alarm Correlation S17: Managing 3G and M -Commerce Services (Panel 1)
14:00 - 15:30 S2: Mobile Agents for Management S10: Monitoring Techniques S18: Shifting Paradigms & New Approaches in Management
16:00 - 17:30 S3: Information Modeling & Management S11: Multicast Monitoring & Topology Discovery S19: e-world/IP Management: an Oxymoron? (Panel 5)
Wednesday
17 April
10:30 - 12:00 S4: Qos Management Architectures S12: Service Manangement S20: Can we implement mutli-vendor component based OSSs? (Panel 3)
14:00 - 15:30 S5: Policy-based Management S13: Service Provisioning S21: Operations Support Systems
16:00 - 17:30 S6: QoS & Connection Management for IP Networks S14: Application-level Load Management S22: The Business Case for Component-based OSS using OSS/J (Panel 2)
Thursday
18 April
10:30 - 12:00 S7: Service Accounting S15: Management of IP Over Optical Networks S23: Policy management: is it real or just good marketing? (Panel4)
14:00 - 15:30 S8: Proactive Security Management S16: Service Modeling & Architectures S24: Operations & Maintenance

S1: Web-based Management
Chair: Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, AT&T Labs Research, USA
S1.1 An Embedded Web Server Architecture for XML-Based Network Management
Hong-Taek Ju,Mi-Joung Choi, Sehee Han, Yunjung Oh, Jeong-Hyuk Yoon, Hyojin Lee, James W. Hong, POSTECH, South Korea
S1.2 Generic Performance Instrumentation of EJB Applications for Service Level Management
Markus Debusmann, Markus Schmid, Reinhold Kroeger, Fachhochschule Wiesbaden, Germany
S1.3 Message Tracking in SOAP-based Web Services
Akhil Sahai, Vijay Machiraju, HP Laboratories, USA; Jinsong Ouyang, Klaus Wurster, HP OpenView, USA

S2: Mobile Agents for Management
Chair: Juergen Schoenwaelder, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
S2.1 A Framework for Building Reusable Mobile Agents for Network Management
Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
S2.2 Paradigms for Mobile Agent-Based Active Monitoring of Network Systems
Anand Tripathi, Tanvir Ahmed, Sumedh Pathak, Megan Carney, Paul Dokas, University of Minnesota, USA
S2.3 Distributed Retrieval of Management Information: Is it About Mobility, Locality or Distribution?
Paulo Simoes, Joao Rodrigues, Luis Silva, Fernando Boavida, CISUC, University of Coimbra, Portugal

S3: Information Modeling and Management
Chair: Alexander Keller, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
S3.1 Model-Driven Open Packet Telephony Management
Alexander Clemm, Poon Leung, Cisco Systems, USA
S3.2 Design of a Network Level Management Information Model for Automatically Switched Transport Networks
Georg Lehr, Ulrike Hartmer, Ralf Geerdsen, T-Systems Nova, Germany
S3.3 Remote MIB Item Look-up Service
Aiko Pras, Szabolcs Boros, Bert Helthuis, University of Twente, The Netherlands

S4: QoS Management Architectures
Chair: Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe, Germany
S4.1 A Scalable Service-Centric IP Quality of Service Architecture for Next Generation Networks
Danny Goderis, Sven Van den Bosch, Yves T'joens, Alcatel, Belgium; Panos Georgatsos, Algonet, Greece; David Griffin, UCL, UK; George Pavlou, Panos Trimintzios, University of Surrey, UK; George Memenios, Eleni Mykoniati, NTUA, Greece; Christian Jacquenet, France Telecom R&D, France
S4.2 A Generic End-to-end Distributed QoS Management Architecture and its application to IP-DiffServ over a WDM Access Feeder Network
Brecht Vermeulen, Stefaan Vanhastel, Ghent University, Belgium; Jeroen Wellen, Lucent Technologies, The Netherlands; Carmen Mas, Intracom, Greece; Frederik Scholaert, Piet Demeester, Ghent University, Belgium
S4.3 On Scalable Network Resource Management Using Bandwidth Brokers
Zhi-Li Zhang, Zhenhai Duan, University of Minnesota, USA; Yiwei Thomas Hou, Fujitsu Laboratories of America, USA

S5: Policy-based Management
Chair: Joan Serrat, Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya, Spain
S5.1 Using the Script MIB for Policy-based Configuration Management
Paloma Martinez, Marcus Brunner, Juergen Quittek, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany; Frank Strauss, Juergen Schoenwaelder, Sven Mertens, Torsten Klie, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
S5.2 Tools for Domain-based Policy Management of Distributed Systems
Nicodemos Damianou, Naranker Dulay, Emil Lupu, Morris Sloman, Imperial College, UK; Toshio Tonouchi, NEC, Japan
S5.3 Using MIMO Feedback Control to Enforce Policies for Interrelated Metrics With Application to the Apache Web Server
Yixin Diao, IBM Research, USA; Neha Gandhi, University of Michigan, USA; Joseph Hellerstein, Sujay Parekh, IBM Research, USA; Dawn Tilbury, University of Michigan, USA

S6: QoS and Connection Management for IP Networks
Chair: Nikos Anerousis, Voicemate, USA
S6.1 A Proposal of QoS Control Architecture and Resource Assignment Scheme
Kazuhiko Isoyama, NEC, Japan
S6.2 Wise: Traffic Engineering Server for A Large-scale MPLS-based IP Network
Taesang Choi, Seunghyun Yoon, Hyungsuk Chung, Changhoon Kim, Jungsook Park, Bungjun Lee, Taesoo Chung, ETRI, Republic of Korea
S6.3 Active Connection Management in Internet Services
Mike Y. Chen, Eric Brewer, UC Berkeley, USA

S7: Service Accounting
Chair: Jose Marcos Nogueira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
S7.1 Service Level Accounting in Telecommunications
Cliff Redmond, Vincent Wade, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
S7.2 Programmable Accounting Management for Virtual Private Networks
Anna Evlogimenou, Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
S7.3 Using Policy-based Concepts to Provide Service Oriented Accounting Management
Igor Radisic, University of Munich, Germany

S8: Proactive Security Management

Chair: Graham Chen, CiTR, Australia
S8.1 Integrating Intrusion Detection and Network Management
Xinzhou Qin, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Wenek Lee, North Carolina State University, USA; Lundy Lewis, Aprisma Management Technologies, USA; Joao Cabrera, Scientific Systems Company, USA
S8.2 Network Management and Control Mechanisms to Prevent Maliciously Induced Network Instability
Ronald Skoog, Nicholas Jasinski, Telcordia, USA; Mark Shayman, Rana Ghahremanpour, University of Maryland, USA
S8.3 A Probabilistic Approach to Detecting Network Scans
Christopher Leckie, Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia

S9: Fault Management and Alarm Correlation

Chair: Joe Hellerstein, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
S9.1 End-to-end Service Failure Diagnosis Using Belief Networks
Malgorzata Steinder, Adarshpal Sethi, University of Delaware, USA
S9.2 Investigation and Practical Assessment of Alarm Correlation Methods for the Use in GSM Access Networks
Hermann Wietgrefe, NATO C3 Agency, The Netherlands
S9.3 Intelligent Search of Correlated Alarms from Database Containing Noise Data
Qingguo Zheng, Xu Ke, Weifeng lv, Shilong Ma, National Lab of Software Development Environment, China

S10: Monitoring Techniques

Chair: George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK
S10.1 Efficient Packet Monitoring for Network Management
Kostas G. Anagnostakis, Sotiris Ioannidis, Stefan Miltchev, Michael B. Greenwald, Jonathan M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania, USA; John Ioannidis, AT&T Research, USA
S10.2 Trajectory Engine: A Backend for Trajectory Sampling
Nick Duffield, Alexandre Gerber, Matthias Grossglauser, AT&T Labs-Research, USA
S10.3 Zone Recovery Methodology for Probe-Subset Selection in End-to-end Network Monitoring
Cenk Ozmutlu, Uludag University, Turkey; Natarajan Gautam, Russell Barton, Pennsylvania State University, USA

S11: Multicast Monitoring and Topology Discovery

Chair: Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands
S11.1 SMRM: SNMP-Based Multicast Reachability Monitoring
Ehab Al-Shaer, Youning Tang, DePaul University, USA
S11.2 A Distributed Management Platform for Integrated Multicast Monitoring
Hassen Sallay, Radu State, Olivier Festor, LORIA-INRIA, France
S11.3 A Hierarchical Topology Discovery Service for IPv6 Networks
Isabelle-Dominique Astic, Olivier Festor, LORIA-INRIA, France

S12: Service Management

Chair: Ryutaro Kawamura, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan
S12.1 Managing Dynamic Services: A Contract-based Approach to a Conceptual Architecture
Alexander Keller, Gautam Kar, Heiko Ludwig, Asit Dan, Joseph L. Hellerstein, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
S12.2 Value Added Service Management in 3G Networks
Nikos Houssos, Evangelos Gazis, Spyridon Panagiotakis, University of Athens, Greece; Stefan Gessler, Anett Schuelke, NEC, CCRLE, Germany; Sandra Quesnel, THALES Communications, France
S12.3 Integrated Service and Network Management Systems for Point to Multipoint Reservation Service Provisioning in ATM Network
Won-Kyu Hong, Korea Telecom, South Korea

S13: Service Provisioning

Chair: Luigi Artusio, TILAB, Italy
S13.1 Profile-Based Subscriber Service Provisioning
Fong Shen, Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA
S13.2 Automated Service Provisioning in Heterogeneous Large-Scale Environment
Ibrahim Khalil, Torsten Braun, IAM, Univ. of Berne, Switzerland
S13.3 Model-based Configuration of VPNs
Ingo Lück, Materna Information & Communications, Germany; Sebastian Vögel, Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany; Heiko Krumm, Universität Dortmund, Germany

S14: Application-level Load Management

Chair: Hiroyuki Okazaki, NEC Europe, Germany
S14.1 Management System Support for Configurable and Efficient Layer - 7 Routing
Mon-Yen Luo, Chu-Sing Yang, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
S14.2 Highly Available and Efficient Load Cluster Management System using SNMP and Web
Myung-Sup Kim, Mi-Joung Choi James W. Hong, POSTECH, South Korea
S14.3 Node Inquiry Function for Strategic Front-End Placement
Toru Egashira, Kousuke Nogami, Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC Coporation, Japan

S15: Management of IP Over Optical Networks

Chair: Takeo Hamada, Fujitsu Labs of America, USA
S15.1 Management vs. Control Plane Approaches for the Integration of IP and WDM Layers - A Synergy Paradigm
Fotis Karayannis, OTE Consulting, Greece; Lampros Raptis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece; Joan Serrat, University Polytechnic Cataluna, Spain; Kostas Vaxevanakis, Ellemedia Technologies Ltd, Greece; George Patikis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
S15.2 Generic Architecture for a Management System of Automatic Switched Transport Networks
Ulrike Hartmer, Ralf Geerdsen, Georg Lehr, T-Systems Nova, Germany; Antonio Manzalini, Giuseppe Ricucci, Telecom Italia Lab, Italy
S15.3 Differentiated Multi-Layer Survivality in IP/WDM Networks
Hongwei Zhang, Arjan Durresi, Ohio State Univ., USA

S16: Service Modeling and Architecures

Robert Weihmayer, Verizon E-Business, USA
S16.1 A Case-Driven Methodology for Applying the MNM Service Model
Holger Schmidt, Igor Radisic, Harald Roelle, Heinz -Gerd Hegering, Markus Garschhammer, Rainer Hauck, Bernhard Kempter, MNM-Team, Germany
S16.2 Unifying Network Configuration and Service Assurance with a Service Modeling Language
Rajeev Gopal, Hughes Network Systems, USA
S16.3 Dynamic Resource Management in an eUtility
Liana Fong, Michael Kalantar, Donald Pazel, German Goldszmidt, Karen Appleby, Tamar Eilam, Sameh Fakhouri, Srirama Krishnakumar, Sandra Miller, John Pershing, IBM T. J. Wastson Research Center, USA

S17: Panel 1 - Managing 3G and M-Commerce Services

Chair: Tom Forsyth, Orange, UK

S18: Shifting Paradigms and New Approaches in Management

Chair: Doug Zuckerman, Doug Zuckerman Associates, USA
S18.1 Shifts In Network Management Paradigms Arising From the New Competition Environment
Decio Ongaro, Tecnosistemi Group, Italy
S18.2 DEN-ng: Achieving Business-Driven Network Management
John Strassner, Intelliden Corporation, USA
S18.3 Common Information vs. Information Overload
Julie Schott, Andrea Westerinen, Cisco Systems, USA; Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, AT&T Labs Research, USA; Peter Rivera, LSI Logic, USA

S19: Panel 5 - e-world/IP Management: an Oxymoron?

Chair: Anil Prasad, CISCO, USA

S20: Panel 3 - Can We Implement Multi-vendor Component Based OSSs?

Chair: Vincent Wade, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

S21: Operations Support Systems

Chair: Carlos Becker Westphall, UFSC, Brazil
S21.1 Event Analysis for Telecommunication Management: Building a Special System and its Use
Sahira Miranda, Jose Marcos Nogueira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil; Christiano Machado, Telemar, Brazil
S21.2 iCOMS: an ADSL Service Provisioning System based on Workflow Management
Kyungjoon Lim, Hakgyun Roh, Dong-Sik Yun, Korea Telecom, South Korea
S21.3 Distributed Networking System for Internet Access Service
Won-Kyu Hong, Korea Telecom, South Korea

S22: Panel 2 - The Business Case for Component-based OSS Using OSS/J

Chair: Frank Korinek, Motorola, USA

S23: Panel 4 - Policy Management: is it Real or Just Good Marketing?

Chair: Morris Sloman, Imperial College, UK

S24: Operations and Maintenance

Chair: George Williamson, BT exact Technologies, UK
S24.1An Operation Support System Architecture for Network Provisioning of Optical Access Networks
Kenichi Tayama, Tsutomu Maruyama, Hiroshi Uno, Takashi Inoue, NTT, Japan
S24.2 ASSO: a Web-portal Application for Operational Process Assessment and Organizational Improvement
Carlo Filangieri,Telecom Italia, Italy
Sergio Sabato, Telecom Italia Lab, Italy
S24.3 Fiber Networks Maintenance in the All-Optical Network Era
Annalisa Mazzarese, Angelo Zucchetti, ANS SpA, Italy, Mario Pellegatta, Mauro Monguzzi, PLLB Elettronica SpA, Italy