UP	Paper 1196	US-W-u	AT BOTTOM
A Service Oriented Framework for Policy-Based Management of Maritime Mobile Networks
Kidston,David		CRC
Labbe,Isabelle		CRC
The Policy-Based Network Management (PBNM) paradigm offers techniques to automate management across diverse and distributed environments. It allows operators to dynamically change the behaviour of managed systems in response to evolving operational needs without the need for per device intervention. We describe in this paper a policy-based management architecture tailored for deployment in maritime networks. The policy framework is based on the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services (WS) standards promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Three policy-based routing and QoS management services have been developed using this framework.
David Kidston is both a Researcher at the Canadian Communications Research Centre and a PhD student in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa. His research interests include wireless networking protocols, management of resource constrained networks, and policy-based network management. He received his Masters in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. Contact him at david.kidston@crc.ca.