A Simple Network Management Architecture for Supporting Network Administrator and QoS Requirements

TL;DR

This paper proposes a simple, easily deployable network management architecture that supports QoS and policy enforcement with minimal system impact, suitable for wired and wireless networks.

Contribution

It introduces a lightweight architecture that requires only gateway installation, maintaining system efficiency and protocol independence for managing network resources.

Findings

Effective traffic grouping improves resource control.

Minimal impact on system utilization.

Compatible with wireless LAN access points.

Abstract

In this paper, a simple network management architecture for supporting both QoS requirements and organization network management policies is purposed. By grouping the traffic flows according to the QoS requirements or certain network management policies, the network resources are effectively controlled. The purposed architecture is easy to deploy; the gateway is the only equipment that needs installation, leaving the rest of the system untouched. The architecture has not significantly degraded the overall system utilization when applying it to the outgoing bound of the gateway. The architecture can also be implemented on the wireless LAN at the access point because the architecture is designed in such the way that it is independent to both the lower and upper protocol layers.