Discusses architectures and protocols for services information, covering the state-of-the-art in current implementations of Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS), Diameter, Common Open Policy Service (COPS), Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and
Table of Contents
1 Introduction PART I - ARCHITECTURES AND PROTOCOLS FOR SERVICE AUTOMATION AND APPLICATION EXAMPLES OF SERVICE AUTOMATION AND DYNAMIC RESOURCE PROVISIONING TECHNIQUES
2 What is a policy?
3 The Radius Protocol and its Extensions
4 The Diameter Protocol
5 The Common Open Policy Service (COPS) Protocol
6 NETCONF
7 Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP)
PART II - DYNAMIC RESOURCE PROVISIONING TECHNIQUES
8 Dynamic Enforcement of QoS Policies
9 Dynamic Enforcement of IP Traffic Engineering Policies in IP/MPLS
Infrastructures
10 Automated Production of BGP/MPLS-Based VPN Networks
11 Dynamic Enforcement of Security Policies in IP/MPLS Environments
12 Future Challenges
Appendices
A XML Schema for NETCONF RPCS and Operations
B XML Schema for NETCONF Notifications
C Example of an IP Traffic Engineering Policy Information Base (IP TE PIB)
D Example of an IP TE Accounting PIB
E Description of Classes of an IP VPN Information Model
Index
