Toward a unified theory of managing large networks

Article Abstract:

Proliferating computer networks and attendant problems of protocol and security are forcing both organizations and standards groups to reevaluate network management concerns. Four central issues involved in system management are: configuration, mapping the system's links and nodes; gathering performance management information; detecting, diagnosing and correcting faults in the system; and maintaining security passwords and encrypted data links. The lack of common standards and adequate technical tools means uncertainty for network managers. Network standardization is based on the seven-layer model developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which divides the task into network and layer management agendas. For the future, the hope is that standards will evolve along with technologies for greater network control.

Network management systems, Internet, Standard, Standardization, Software engineering, Local area networks, Wide area networks, Ethernet, LAN, Communications protocols, Protocol, Network Management, OSI Standard, ISO, T1 Communications, WAN, T1 lines

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From personal appliance to personal agent

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Personal computers are increasingly talking for their users rather than to their users. Macro commands and user-defined style sheets in various applications now represent their users as personal agents as well as working for them as personal appliances, and this trend will continue as the use of local area networks (LANs) and user-customized software increases. Another product of LANs and multitasking operating systems will be groupware, software that manages a group's work process by monitoring and coordinating the applications which individuals are working on.

Project management software, Office automation, Microcomputer, Software Modification, Project Management Systems

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Accelerators speed logic and fault simulation

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Design automation stimulates technological evolution in computing and communication by providing more powerful computers which will in turn research yet more capable algorithms. Parallel processing, in which several networked computers divide a design automation task for simultaneous computation, is one trend in automated design. Another is the use of computer-aided design engines, hardware designed for particular problems. Automated design systems will continue to expand capabilities.

Computer aided design, Automation, Design, Parallel processing, Computer-Aided Design

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