Samir Ghamri-Doudane, Sven van der Meer, Robert O’Connor, Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Nazim AgoulmineResources Discovery and Management Using Policies in Smart SpacesTelecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG)
Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT)sghamri@rp.lip6.fr, vdmeer@tssg.org, roconnor@tssg.org, ghamri@rp.lip6.fr, nazim.agoulmine@iup.univ-evry.fr
This paper presents a new hierarchical Policy Based Management (PBM) architecture that
facilitates the description and automatic discovery of services and devices in Smart Space
environments and the specification of high-level policies that control access to these resources
in coexisting Managed Zones (M-Zones).
The approach is performed in two phases. The first one consists of defining a generic
information model of all resources that can be managed in such a space and a specification of
a set of high-level policies to express the access control policy of each M-Zone. Both models
are specified using the DMTF CIM. (For the next iteration, it is planned to use the DEN-ng
model, extended with new specific objects). The second phase is more dynamic and uses a
novel discovery protocol based on COPS to identify the various components that are present
in a particular environment. This protocol is named COPS-SD (COPS extensions for Service
Discovery usage).
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