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A Call to Arms for Management Plane Analytics

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HotNets-XIII: Proceedings of the 13th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2670518.2673883

Published: 27 October 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Over the last few decades, the networking community has developed numerous techniques for understanding how real networks behave through analyzing their data and control planes. In this paper, we call upon the community to similarly develop techniques to analyze the network management plane, that is, activities that underlie network design and operation. Such analytics can shed light on why a network behaves as observed and the relative merits of different management practices. While the management plane is often not directly observable, we argue that many relevant aspects can be inferred through data that most networks already gather (e.g., snapshots of configurations). Using preliminary analysis of such data from many large networks, we demonstrate the feasibility and the value of management plane analytics.

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Xing JHsu KXia YCai YLi YZhang YChen A(2024)Occam: A Programming System for Reliable Network ManagementProceedings of the Nineteenth European Conference on Computer Systems10.1145/3627703.3650086(148-162)Online publication date: 22-Apr-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3627703.3650086
Bartulovic MJiang JBalakrishnan SSekar VSinopoli B(2017)Biases in Data-Driven Networking, and What to Do About ThemProceedings of the 16th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks10.1145/3152434.3152448(192-198)Online publication date: 30-Nov-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3152434.3152448
Sung YTie XWong SZeng HBarcellos MCrowcroft JVahdat AKatti S(2016)RobotronProceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGCOMM Conference10.1145/2934872.2934874(426-439)Online publication date: 22-Aug-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2934872.2934874
Gember-Jacobson AWu WLi XAkella AMahajan RCho KFukuda KPai VSpring N(2015)Management Plane AnalyticsProceedings of the 2015 Internet Measurement Conference10.1145/2815675.2815684(395-408)Online publication date: 28-Oct-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2815675.2815684

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