Network Management Research.
Abstract
This report deals with important issues which concern functional components that are present in a distributed processing system for control purposes. These components are global information management, dynamic reconfiguration, deadlock handling, and the communication-oriented components of protocol, and routing. In the management of global information, the ensuring of consistency and availability are crucial, and unsolved problems exist in integrating techniques for providing these attributes in a viable manner. Dynamic reconfiguration, necessary for providing load-balancing and reliability, poses the problems of design of the state determination mechanism, the derivation of conditions for reconfigurablity and the design of reconfiguration strategies. Correct and efficient deadlock detection algorithms need to be developed to resolve deadlocks due to concurrent usage of resources. In the aera of commnication protocols, efficient protocol analysis techniques and tools for protocol specification and design are needed to ensure the correctness of each class of protocols. In the design of routing algorithms, distributed routing algorithms are usually preferred. Hierarchical routing algorithms are more suitable for very large networks; however, little work has been done in this area.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 14, 1983
- Accession Number
- ADA127667
Entities
People
- C. V. Ramamoorthy
Organizations
- University of California, Berkeley