Towards Autonomic Mobile Terminal Management

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Towards Autonomic Mobile Terminal Management
Eric Joonmyung Kang eliot_at_postech.ac.kr DPNM
Lab., Dept. of CSE, POSTECH, Korea
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Presentation Outline

• Introduction
• 4G Operation Management
• Device Management
• Autonomic Computing
• Autonomic Mobile Terminal Management
• Summary
• Future work
• QnA

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Introduction

• Motivation
• Network Heterogeneity
• Dynamic Traffic Distribution
• Complex Configuration
• Goal
• To provide flexible and scalable mobile terminal
  management mechanism for reconfigurable systems
  using the autonomic computing technology

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Introduction

• Project Overview

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Introduction
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4G Operation Management
4G Operation Management System From Prof.
James Won-Ki Hongs paper 1
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Device Management

• Definition
• A tool to alleviate operators and end-users
  problems and consequently improve product and
  service perceived qualityand end-user
  satisfaction
• Problem 2
• Device usability characteristics
• Increased terminal complexities
• Increased numbers of mobile devices
• Increased stratification of the value-chain
• Early adoption
• Goal
• Protect Network Resources
• Protect Early Investments
• Minimize the cost of service delivery
• Facilitate Device Usability

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Device Management

• Remote parameter operations
• Provisioning of key parameters to enable remote
  configuration and service activation (e.g.
  browser, GPRS, mailbox settings)
• Remote diagnostics and troubleshooting
• Remotely identify and resolve parameter-related
  error situations on the handset via the mobile
  network
• Software operations
• Upgrade part(s) of the software on the mobile
  device, or install brand new software packages

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Device Management

• Enable new revenue
• Ensure that all the devices have correct service
  settings
• Service activation
• Rapid take-off and easy adoption of new services
• Keeping track of device capability information
• Ensure that services are presented and delivered
  to the user in the correct format
• Cost savings
• Speed up the customer care process and invest in
  only one device management solutions

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Open device management (DM) technologyframework

• DM architecture (OMA) is based on trusted
  relationship between management serverand client
  to be managed
• In practice, DM has two logical parts
• bootstrapping to establish the relationshipand
  insert basic parameters forout-of-the-box
  experience
• continuous management for actual value-added
  management operations (problem identification,
  configuration management)
• Two viable technology solutions enabling DM
• WAP Forum provisioning for bootstrapping
• SyncML DM for continuous management

Device
Server
Boot- strapping phase
Bootstrap message
1. Management session

2. Management session
Sessions of DM protocol
3. Management session
...
Nth Management session

• Device management has two logical parts
  bootstrapping and continuous DM
• Both parts are needed in order to meet market
  requirements

From 4 5
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DM and wireless infrastructure
Subscription/service mgmt
Subscription and profile directory
Diagnosticsreporting
OSS
Fault monitoring
DB query/update
MSC,VLR
Parameter configuration
MSC triggering
SMSC
End-user HTML page Operator HTML page Mass
customisation Application
Management
Devicemanagementserver
DM broker offering WSI
From 4 5
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Autonomic Computing1

• Autonomic
• Pertaining to operating system that responds
  automatically to problems or system failures.
• Autonomic computing 7 8 9
• A computing environment with the ability to
  manage itself and dynamically adapt to change in
  accordance with business policies and objectives.
• Application of technology to manage technology
  and reduce need for human intervention
• Proposed by IBM to provide the enterprise with
  agility speed to respond to any customer
  demand, market opportunity or external threat

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Autonomic Computing Attributes
Self-managing systems that deliver 7 8 9
Increased Responsiveness Adapt to dynamically
changing environments
Business Resiliency Discover, diagnose,and act
to prevent disruptions
Operational Efficiency Tune resources and balance
workloads to maximize use of IT resources
Secure Information and Resources Anticipate,
detect, identify, and protect against attacks
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Autonomic Manager
Manageability Interface
Managed Element
Foundation for building self-managing systems
From 11
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Multiple Layers of Autonomy

• Multiple autonomic managers for multiple
  resources
• Autonomic managers are arranged in hierarchical
  fashion
• Lower-level managers deal with resources at
  smaller granularity and/or smaller locality
• Top-level autonomic manager
• Business decision-making
• Policy and service levels

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Scenario
Services through heterogeneous networks
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Setting
From Broodje 4G
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Service Control

• Session Control functionality provides generic
  procedures
• to establish, maintain, modify and terminate
  sessions
• interactions between controlling parties and
  resources
• not service specific and hold for a large number
  of services.
• Complexity
• Need to manage modules hierarchically to maintain
  the established session

end-users
Applications
service

session

application
application
program

program

application associations

Application

Application

transport connections

Transport

Transport

IP

From Busropan, et al, Controllable Gateways
for Network-Based Session Control
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Autonomic Mobile Terminal Management
AMTMS (Autonomic Mobile Terminal
Management System)
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Summary

• 4G Operation Management
• Device Management
• Device management is an integral element of the
  management solutions for the network
  infrastructure
• Autonomic Computing
• Control of computing resources to ensure delivery
  of a specific service
• Autonomic Computing Attributes Self-management
• Autonomic Manager
• Autonomic Mobile Terminal Management
• Solution for complexities
• Easy to maintain mobile terminals dynamically

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Future Work Ubiquitous Computing
Interfaces
Application Layer
3rd Party Service Provider I
3rd Party Service Provider II
3rd Party Service Provider III
4G Service Platform operator A
4G Service Platform operator B
End-User B
End-User A
Service Control Layer
Access network operator 3
Access network operator 2
Access network operator 1
Access Network Type B
Access Network Type C
Access Network Type C
Access Network Type B
Access Network Type A
Access Network Type A
Transport Network Layer
Logical Relationship
Domain
SP - SP Service Control
From Lecture note of Prof. Leon-Garcia 11
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Reference

• 1 James Won-Ki Hong, Alberto Leon-Garcia,
  Towards Operations and Management of 4G Networks
• 2 TeleManagement Forum 515, Mobile Terminal
  Equipment Management Business Agreement, Nov.
  2002
• 3 Nokia Whitepaper, Device management
  adopting mobile services effortlessly, 2003
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  Wireless Device ManagementFeatures, Issues and
  Challenge
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  mobile phones through open technologies
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  "The Device Management Service," - Proceedings of
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• 7 IBM Corporation An architectural blueprint
  for autonomic computing. White Paper, (2003)
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  Jan. 2003, pp. 41-52.
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• 10 University of Toronto Blueprint for
  Autonomic Service Architecture, (2005)
• 11 Alberto Leon-Garcia, Next-Generation
  Services and Applications

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QnA