Research On Management Information Base In SUPANET U-Platform

The background of this dissertation is the research activity on Next Generation Internet, i.e. SUPANET (Single physical layer User-data transfer & switching Platform Architecture Network), of which the "Ethernet-oriented Physical Frame Timeslot Switching" (EPFTS) is the core technique. SUPANET adopts the "out-band" signaling concept hence separates the user-data platform from the signaling and management platform. EPFTS sub-layer and DWDM sub-layer collectively forms the single physical layer user-data platform and provides multi-granular transmission and switching service for user-data with insured QoS. The signaling and management platform, on the other hand, performs functions related to signaling and management.Separation of the U-Platform and S&M-platform demands an IAI (Intra-node Access Interfac) to exchange information and data and collaboration between the two platforms. Relevant Management Information (MI) has to be organized into a Management Information Base (MIB) to provide a general access mechanism for convenient use, management, and maintance purposes as there are large amount of information. Managememt Information Base (MIB ) has become a generic term for all information base in computer networks, even though it was first designed for management information only at the start.The focuse of this dissertation is concerned with a particular type of MIB called U-MIB since it is loacated in the User-data platform. This paper involves analysis, planning, and organization of U-MIB and with more detailed description of some of MIB objects. In order to proceed with discussion in followed chapters, a brief discussion on the research background of SUPANET and EPFTS is first provided in Chapter 2. Techniques relevant to MIB in Internet are examined, especially with SNMP, organization of MIB, description techniques, and MIB-2 in Chapter 3, which provide a good reference for the discussion presented in Chapters 4 and 5. Chapter 4 provides a basic framework for U-MIB in SUPANET, while Chapter 5 presents an emulation experiment to access the U-MIB thus defined in Chapter 4 throughan Intra-node Access Interface defined in the SUPA project. The preliminary experiment has shown to some extent that the author's work on U-MIB is accessible and hence provides a basis for further research work on this subject in the future.