Unraveling the complexity of network management

Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 335-348

  Benson, Theophilus ^a   Akella, Aditya ^a   Maltz, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NETWORK MANAGEMENT; NETWORK ROUTING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATIVE DESIGNS; ANECDOTAL EVIDENCES; COMPLEXITY METRICS; CONFIGURATION LANGUAGES; ENTERPRISE NETWORKS; INHERENT COMPLEXITY; MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES; REACHABILITY CONSTRAINTS;

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

EID: 85076895441     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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