Policy Specification for Programmable Networks

There is a need to be able to program network components to adapt to application requirements for quality of service, specialised application dependent routing, to increase efficiency, to support mobility and sophisticated management functionality. There are a number of different approaches to providing programmability all of which are extremely powerful and can potentially damage the network, so there is a need for clear specification of authorisation policies i.e., who is permitted to access programmable network resources or services. Obligation policies are event triggered rules which can perform actions on network components and so provide a high-level means of ‘programming’these components. Both authorisation and obligation policies are interpreted so can be enabled, disabled or modified dynamically without shutting down components. This paper describes a notation and object-oriented framework for specifying policies related to programmable and grouping them into roles. We sh...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: IWAN
• Authors: Morris Sloman, Emil Lupu
• Keywords: Computer Networks, IWAN 1999, Network Components, Obligation Policies, Policies