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Title : IP based Generic Control Protocol (IGCP)
Author(s) : M. Behringer, et al
Filename : draft-chaparadza-intarea-igcp-00.txt
Pages : 39
Date : 2011-07-25
This document presents a proposal for a multi-purpose Generic Control
Protocol (IGCP) for IP based networks. There is a growing need for a
generic control protocol framework that can be further customized to
specific usage contexts in which certain types of control information
exchange messages and behavior among some functional entities hosted
by different nodes or devices is desired. For example, the growing
area of self-management, self-organization and autonomic networking
introduces functional entities into the node/device and network
architectures that need to exchange control information in order to
implement self-adaptive behavior by dynamically configuring and
optimizing the network. In this Draft we capture a number of control
message exchange types of contexts (semantics) that can be
selectively applied in the exchange of control information, which can
form the basis of a generic control protocol, while at the same time
defining the part in the message format that can be further
customized according to the needs of specific functional entities
designed to use the generic control protocol for exchanging control
information. In this Draft, we present our proposal for such a
generic control protocol, whose message format is divided into two
parts: a Common Part and a Generic Data Part. The Common Part
defines a set of a variety of selectable control semantics (e.g.
simple one-way control information flow, indications of whether an
acknowledgement is needed or not, solicitations for information or
push/pull behaviors, negotiations for parameter value settings, etc).
The Generic Data Part can be further customized and structured
according to some specific use case of conveying control information
carried by the Data Part that need to be parsed and used by some
entities designed to interpret the Data Part according to their own
specific customization and structuring of the Data Part. We also
give an example domain of application of the IGCP, namely the domain
of autonomic adaptive control of network behaviours, of which we
illustrate further by providing an example Use Case that customizes
the Data Part of the IGCP for use by special functional entities
residing in different nodes in exchanging information using the IGCP
messages.
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