We consider a general class of network revenue management problems, where mean demand at each point in time is determined by a vector of prices, and the objective is to dynamically adjust these prices so as to maximize expected revenues over a finite sales horizon. A salient feature of our problem is that the decision maker can only observe realized demand over time but does not know the underl...

Management scripts are being used as the major means to realize the powerful concept of management by delegation. Many script delegation frameworks are proposed and experimented with for various network management standards, notably, the SNMP, OSI, and CORBA. More proposals and research are underway. The major problem with these scripting frameworks is that most of these frameworks are, in a se...

This paper presents a decentralized approach for the autonomic management of a group of collaborating base stations to provide efficient and effective wireless network access in highly dynamic environments. It provides a management platform that supports many different management functions based on common mechanisms for information exchange, transactional semantics and security. A central featu...

Future military communication networks will have a mixture of backbone terrestrial, satellite and wireless terrestrial networks. The speeds of these networks vary and they are very heterogeneous. As networks become faster, it is not enough to do reactive fault management. Our approach combines proactive and reactive fault management . Proactive fault management is implemented by dynamic and ada...

Network resources are shared as needed by a community of users. Without effective traffic controls, networks are vulnerable to possible congestion when the offered traffic exceeds the network capacity, leading to serious deterioration of network performance. This chapter gives an overview of traffic control methods and their underlying principles. The main preventive controls are admission cont...

We consider the problem faced by an airline that is flying both passengers and cargo over a network of locations on a fixed periodic schedule. Bookings for many classes of cargo shipments between origin-destination pairs in this network are made in advance, but the weight and volume of aircraft capacity available for cargo as well as the exact weight and volume of each shipment are not known at...

Telecommunications networks have become essential to the day-to-day activities of the enterprise and individuals. Many corporations, agencies, universities, and other institutions now rely on voice, data (e.g., facsimile transmission, electronic funds transfer), and video (e.g., video teleconferencing) services to ensure their growth and survival. This trend will accelerate as personal communic...

The introduction of new network services, broad-band multi-media and advanced mobile communications imposes high requirements on ATM network management. In such an environment, an essential task of ATM management is to prevent faults and to support eecient resource allocation. The idea is to specify parameters, according to which the behaviour of the network is monitored, and to perform the nec...

Internet management is mostly based on IETF standards, such as the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), which was developed at the end of the 1980’s and is widely used since then. Today, SNMP is the most widely deployed management technology. However, the SNMP management framework has some drawbacks in network management tasks, such as the management information model, instrumentation, ma...