Abstract

The Madeira project addresses a novel approach for the management of network elements of increasing number, heterogeneity and transience. As next-generation networks exhibit major challenges for today's centralized network management systems, we investigate the fesability of a peer-to-peer (P2P) approach, facilitating self-management and dynamic behaviour of elements within networks. In this short paper we give an overview of the system architecture developed in Madeira and descirbe the key conceptts, like Madeira platform services, Adaptive Management Components and poicies that provide the base for building distributed network management applications. Keywords - P2P technologies, self-managing networks, policy based management, Model Driven Architecture (MDA)