Design and Implementation of a Network Management System for Service Oriented Network

Today, with the advent of cloud computing and the growth of mobile services, a new Internet paradigm is required that is capable of providing an on-demand service by discovering and aggregating service resources for users. A Service Oriented Network (SON)[1] is focused on the services provided over a network rather than the technologies or their related components. These technologies or components are hidden from the end users and third parties so their only concern is how to get and use the services on any device, anywhere, and at anytime of the day. From a network management point of view, the task of network management for a SON will become increasingly complex since a number of services will be distributed and the required components for the services can be dynamically integrated to fulfill the service requests in a real-time manner. Therefore, an efficient network management system with a highly visualized Graphical User Interface (GUI) and an optimal network architecture must be deployed to enhance the SON. We therefore design and implement a GUI-based network management system to manage the SON.