• DocumentCode
    770782
  • Title

    PS: A Policy Simulator

  • Author

    Aib, Issam ; Boutaba, Raouf

  • Author_Institution
    Waterloo Univ., Ont.
  • Volume
    45
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    4/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    130
  • Lastpage
    136
  • Abstract
    This article presents PS, a policy simulator tool intended to serve in the validation and performance evaluation of policy-based management solutions. PS is a discrete process-based simulation environment which allows the specification of all major components required for a policy-based management solution. These include the ability to specify management policies, events, metrics, probes, service-level objectives, service-level agreements, as well as business-level objectives. We describe the main components of PS and show how it has been used to evaluate the performance of a policy-based management solution for a Web application hosting SLA
  • Keywords
    Internet; computer network management; PS; Web application; business-level objectives; policy simulator; policy-based management solutions; service-level agreements;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications Magazine, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0163-6804
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MCOM.2007.343622
  • Filename
    4149670