Author(s)

Yusuke Tanimura¹, Kazuto Sasai², Gen Kitagata², Tetsuo Kinoshita²

¹Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
²Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

When a disaster occurs, the demand for information and communication technology (ICT) services drastically increases. To meet such demands, a national project was undertaken in Japan to develop the Movable and Deployable ICT Resource Unit (MDRU). One challenge regarding the MDRU is securing operators to work the units in emergency situations. As ICT service users have diverse and frequently changing demands, strong technical skills and practical knowledge are required for the administration of MDRUs. In this paper, we propose a knowledge-based network management system to alleviate the burden on administrators. To deal with the structural changes to network systems that frequently occur with changes in ICT service demand, we introduce modularization techniques into our previous research. The proposed system can be easily reconfigured by join/disjoin modules corresponding to changes in the system configuration of the MDRU. The results of our experiments using the implemented experimental system confirm that the proposed system can be applied to MDRU operation and effectively supports administrators.

Multi-Agent System, Knowledge-Based Network Management System, MDRU

Tanimura, Y. , Sasai, K. , Kitagata, G. and Kinoshita, T. (2017) Knowledge-Based Network Management System for Movable and Deployable ICT Resource Unit. Journal of Computer and Communications, 5, 135-151. doi: 10.4236/jcc.2017.57013.