Network management practices: an empirical analysis
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Authors
Cauthen, Timothy A
Davis, Kristine M.
Subjects
Network management
Bandwidth
QoS
Prioritization
Chargeback
Bandwidth
QoS
Prioritization
Chargeback
Advisors
Sridhar, Suresh
Bui, Tung X.
Date of Issue
1997-09
Date
September 1997
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
eng
Abstract
As organizations continue migrating mission critical applications and business processing to distributed computing environments, network utilization and the number of bandwidth-intensive applications with continue increasing. Costly network infrastructure upgrades are forcing organizations to explore alternative management methodologies for addressing bandwidth congestion control. In an era of stagnant budgets and increasing IT requirements, DoD is no exception. The enactment of the Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1996 mandates investigating cost-effective ways of managing 21st century network resources. This study reviews traditional computing resource management and how resource management has changed with the addition of bandwidth as a decision variable. It then investigates current network management practices determined from a sample of business-sector organizations, academic institutions, and military installations, focusing on prioritization and chargeback as bandwidth controls. It then examines the future of prioritization and chargeback technologies and their potential impact on future DoD network operations.
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Thesis
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Department
Department of Systems Management
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School
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Distribution Statement
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.