Modeling management of research and education networks

Modeling management of research and education networks

Galagan, D.V.

Looijen, M. (promotor)

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

2004-09-13

Computer networks and their services have become an essential part of research and education. Nowadays every modern R&E institution must have a computer network and provide network services to its students and staff. In addition to its internal computer network, every R&E institution must have a connection with the computer networks of other institutions, and the Internet. Such connectivity is no longer a luxury, but a necessity. This is where the computer networks among the R&E organizations come in: these networks connect R&E organizations with each other and also with other networks, including the Internet. Such networks provide services to R&E organizations located within geographical areas of different sizes: a city, a region, a country, or a continent. They exist in many countries all over the world. Europe, North America and Eastern Asia are the main parts of the world where one finds the most well-developed computer networks among the R&E institutions. This thesis discusses the issue of managing computer networks among R&E institutions. Such networks are here called Research and Education Networks (RENs). Although the management of computer networks has received a lot of attention in the literature, the management of RENs was previously neglected by researchers. The research presented here aims to fill this gap and to design a model which supports the management of RENs. The idea for this research was inspired by a project aimed at the creation of a national REN in Ukraine â the Ukrainian Research and Academic Network (URAN). The research described in this thesis initially started as an attempt to help building this REN in a systematic way rather than in a trial-and-error manner. The research in this thesis was conducted as part of the research program of the Information Strategy and Management of Information Systems of the Delft University of Technology. It continues the line of the Doctoral projects conducted within this research program, which is related to the management of computer networks, namely "Modelling change management of evolving heterogeneous networks", "Management of international networks" and "Management of networks with highly distributed international use".

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