Data-Driven Fault Management for TINA Applications

Hiroshi ISHII  Hiroaki NISHIKAWA  Yuji INOUE  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E80-B   No.6   pp.907-914
Publication Date: 1997/06/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Network Operations and Management)
Category: Distribute MGNT
Keyword: 
fault management,  TINA,  distributed processing environment,  data-driven processor,  pipeline processing scheme,  

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Summary: 
This paper describes the effectiveness of stream-oriented data-driven scheme for achieving autonomous fault management of hyper-distributed systems such as networks based on the Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture (TINA). TINA, whose specifications are in the finalizing phase within TINA-Consortium, is aiming at achieving interoperability and reusability of telecom applications software and independent of underlying technologies. However, to actually implement TINA network, it is essential to consider the technology constraints. Especially autonomous fault management at run-time is crucial for distributed network environment because centralized control using global information is very difficult. So far many works have been done on so-called off-line management but runtime management of service failure seems immature. This paper proposes introduction of stream-oriented data-driven processors to the autonomous fault management at runtime in TINA based distributed network environment. It examines the features of distributed network applications and technology requirements to achieve fault management of those distributed applications such as effective multiprocessing of surveillance, testing, reconfiguration in addition to ordinary processing.