EDGE - Enterprise wiDe self manaGed nEtwork solution
Proposal summary: This project is funded by Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India. The project duration is 24 months starting from March 2008 onwards.
Project Overview
Self Managed Network is an R & D project in the field of Network Measurement & QoS funded by Department of IT,MCIT,Govt. of India. Objective of this project is to carry out research and develop a system that is very near to Self-Managed means being capable of Self-Measurement,Self-Monitoring,Self-Analysis,Self-Deciding,Self-Configurat ion and Self-Secured.
EDGE is based on the ISO FCAPS Model. The basic idea behind FCAPS is very simple - it categorizes the plethora of information handled by a management system into five key functional areas: Fault Management, Configuration Management, Accounting Management, Performance Management and Security Management. FCAPS is an acronym of these functional areas.
The System comprises of four major subsystems namely Collectors, Analyzers, Decision Maker and Decision Implementer. The Collectors are for collecting data from SNMP monitoring, NetFlow records and Packet information. The Analyzers comprise of Traffic Analyzer that analyze the network traffic for the traffic patterns based on applications(layer5), Protocols(layer 4 and below) and Host(IP based).The QoS Analyzer analyzes the network traffic for QoS related issues and finally the Security Analyzer which analyzes the network traffic for Security and Anomaly issues. The system has in-built capabilities for automatic reconfiguration that shall be viewed using a web based Graphical User Interfaces.
Prior Art
The team as a part of the DIT, MCIT, Government of India, Funded “Establishment of a Nation-Wide QoS Test bed Project” has developed a solution for network measurement and monitoring called “Know Your Network” which is available in the open-source: http://trinetra.ncb.ernet.in/~kyn
Input Sources
Architecture Overview
Features
- Network Health Monitoring.
- Network Discovery
- Network Measurement and monitoring
- QoS and Security Analyzers
- Self-configuration capabilities
International Publications
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EDGE:An Architecture for self-configuration of network for QoS and Security
By Subramanian N, Praveen D Ampatt, Muraleedharan N, Subhash Chandra Bose Korimilli, Arun Parmar, Manish Kumar, Anupam Roy, NGIntW 2009: "THE FIRST International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS)" Bengaluru on January 5-10, 2009
