Advances in Network Management

Over the past two decades, business volume of hardware and software in the U.S has decreased by about seventy percent, while the cost of management and support has grown from $20 billion to $140 billion. With close to seventy percent of this growing figure being spent on the management of legacy systems and only thirty percent on new systems, improvements in the development of self-managing systems have become a cost-saving priority for many corporations and an issue of strategic importance for many economies.

Investigating the latest theories, methods, and technologies, Advances in Network Management provides the insight of a recognized expert into the fundamental concepts and contemporary challenges in network management. From basic concepts to research-level material, it details the evolution of network management solutions in network management paradigms, protocols, and techniques. The book also addresses dependencies between network management and application-level service management.

This forward-looking resource investigates advanced networks and network services including—autonomic computing, context-aware systems management, and automatic techniques aiming at self-management (self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization, and self-protection). With its breadth and depth of coverage in theoretical, technical, and research topics, this book provides time-tested guidance for dealing with the growing complexity of network services while improving cost efficiencies in your IT department.

About the Author

Jianguo Ding holds the degree of a Doctor Engineer (Dr.-Ing.) in Electronic Engineering from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Fern-Universität in Hagen, Germany.

After concluding his PhD research he was awarded the ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) "Alain Bensoussan" postdoctoral fellowship, which supported his research work at the Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) at the University of Luxembourg between July 2008 and April 2009. From May 2009 until January 2010 he continues to work as an ERCIM postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

From 2005 to July 2008, he was a lecturer and an associate professor at the Software Engineering Institute of East China Normal University, China.

From November 2005 to February 2006 he was awarded the International research grant from University of Genoa in Italy and worked at Department of Communication, Computer and System Science (DIST), University of Genoa for the cooperation research in wireless and mobile networks.

From August 2001 to March 2004, he was awarded a DAAD (the German Academic Exchange Service) doctoral scholarship and studied at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany.

Jianguo Ding is a Member of the IEEE and a Member of the ACM. His current research interests include network management and control, wireless and mobile networks, network security, network performance evaluation, intelligent technology, and probabilistic reasoning. Dr. Ding has published several book chapters, journal papers and peer-reviewed conference papers in these areas.