Autonomic Networking Use Case for Distributed Detection of Service Level Agreement (SLA) Violations
RFC 8316
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RFC - Informational
(February 2018; No errata)
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Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) J. Nobre
Request for Comments: 8316 University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos
Category: Informational L. Granville
ISSN: 2070-1721 Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
A. Clemm
Huawei
A. Gonzalez Prieto
VMware
February 2018
Autonomic Networking Use Case for Distributed Detection of
Service Level Agreement (SLA) Violations
Abstract
This document describes an experimental use case that employs
autonomic networking for the monitoring of Service Level Agreements
(SLAs). The use case is for detecting violations of SLAs in a
distributed fashion. It strives to optimize and dynamically adapt
the autonomic deployment of active measurement probes in a way that
maximizes the likelihood of detecting service-level violations with a
given resource budget to perform active measurements. This
optimization and adaptation should be done without any outside
guidance or intervention.
This document is a product of the IRTF Network Management Research
Group (NMRG). It is published for informational purposes.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
This document is a product of the Internet Research Task Force
(IRTF). The IRTF publishes the results of Internet-related research
and development activities. These results might not be suitable for
deployment. This RFC represents the consensus of the Network
Management Research Group of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF).
Documents approved for publication by the IRSG are not candidates for
any level of Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 7841.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8316.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Definitions and Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Current Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. Use Case Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5. A Distributed Autonomic Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6. Intended User Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7. Implementation Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7.1. Device-Based Self-Knowledge and Decisions . . . . . . . . 11
7.2. Interaction with Other Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
8. Comparison with Current Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
9. Related IETF Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
11. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
12. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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1. Introduction
The Internet has been growing dramatically in terms of size,
capacity, and accessibility in recent years. Communication
requirements of distributed services and applications running on top
of the Internet have become increasingly demanding. Some examples
are real-time interactive video or financial trading. Providing such
services involves stringent requirements in terms of acceptable
latency, loss, and jitter.
Performance requirements lead to the articulation of Service Level
Objectives (SLOs) that must be met. Those SLOs are part of Service
Level Agreements (SLAs) that define a contract between the provider
and the consumer of a service. SLOs, in effect, constitute a
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