Management Paradigms, Models and Architectures
- Self-managing networks (self-healing, self-optimizing, self-protecting and self-configuring)
- Integrated control and management
- Distributed and scalable management
- Policy and role based management
- Programmable, active, and adaptive mgmt
- Resilience and survivability
- "Plug-n-Play" component-based management
- Customer controlled and managed networks
- Proactive and reactive management
Operation and Management Functions
- Security management
- Mobility management
- End-to-end measurements
- Network and systems monitoring
- Alarm correlation and filtering
- Customer care and workforce management
- Process engineering for operators' service and network management
- Performance and fault management
- Configuration and accounting management
- Integration and testing of commercial off-the-shelf products
- Content hosting and delivery
- Path Protection and Restoration
- Internet service pricing, Bandwidth trading
Service Engineering and Operational Challenges
- Next generation operation support systems
- Service design and quality assurance
- Resource inventory, planning, and allocation
- Service discovery and service negotiation
- SLAs and business process management
- Quality-of-Service management
- Service portability/mobility (VHE)
- Transaction-oriented services and supply chain management
- "Soft" networks (Soft-switch, Parlay, 3GPP OSA, JAIN) and service switching
- Dynamic service requirements analysis
- Charging and accounting of integrated systems and services
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Theories, Models, and Enabling Management Technologies
- Theory (control, optimization, economic, games, chaos, graph) for management
- Grid, middleware and peer-to-peer technologies
- Information models and Internet technologies (Web, XML, DEN, CIM)
- AI techniques (knowledge-based, intelligent agents, machine learning, neural networks)
- Data warehousing, ontology, mining and statistical methods in management
- User interfaces and virtual reality in management
Management of Emerging Networks and Servicess
- Converged networks and services
- Peer-to-peer and community networks
- Grids, grid services, and grid applications
- Ad hoc and self-configurable networks
- Multi-sensor and self-organizing networks
- Overlay networks, virtual topologies and VPN services
- Wireless broadband networks (2G, 2.5G, 3G, and beyond)
- High speed access, Wireless Local (WLANs) and Personal Area Networks (PANs)
- Optical networks (metropolitan, all optical, WDM, DWDM, optical IP)
- Video and broadband cable networks
- VoIP, VoD, FTTX networks, services, and protocols (IPv4, IPv6, H.323, SIP, RTP, RTCP, RTSP, MGCP, and QoS)
- Storage Area Networks (SAN) and ASPs server farms
- Web services and content delivery networks
- Smart homes and networked haptics
- Satellite and interplanetary networks
- e-World (e-health, e-commerce, e-business, and e-government)
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