Ericsson R&D Ireland in Athlone, is responsible for the global Ericsson network management portfolio and through direct support and linkage with Ericsson Research in Sweden will serve as a host for this Transfer of Knowledge program.

The research department's focus is in the interdisciplinary area of network management and we have produced more than 28 internationally peer reviewed publications over the last 3 years, have delivered many product innovations and concept demonstrations and are leading the standardisation of distributed techniques for management systems.

We propose a new vision for network management based on highly autonomous, secure hyper-distributed systems operating on dynamic semantic models of the network environment.

Distributed computing (P2P, Grid, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)) and Knowledge Engineering (data mining, machine learning, ontologies) will be critical for the development such management systems.

The third International Workshop on Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems (DANMS)  will take place in New Orleans, November 30, 2008 and will be co-located with IEEE Globecom. This year it will focus on emphasizing Service Centric Network Management considering the impact on the system, across the whole information flow from service creation to deployment in the network.

Date: November 30, 2008
Location: New Orleans

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The Second International Workshop on Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems took place in Washington DC, November 26-30, 2007. It was co-located with Globecom 2007, and focused on architectures and mechanisms that improve the reliability, dependability and manageability of communication networks.

Date: November 26-30, 2007

Location: Washington DC

Full details can be found at http://www.danms.org/prev_danms_/index.html 

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Our research lab is currently involved in the following:

FP7 Projects:

• EFIPSANS 
• 4WARD 
• SENSEI 

EUREKA Celtic

• Magneto