Rational Policy System for Network Management

Policy-based Network Management with Event-Condition-Action (ECA) rules is a widespread approach to face the increasing complexity in Network Management that requires a high-level of automation. However, the inability to handle uncertainty and the lack of autonomous decisions making functionality along operational objectives are limiting the applicability of ECA rules. In this paper, we present a new Rational Policy System which combines an ECA policy system with a Utility Function-based conflict resolution. In this way, it can handle the uncertainty in the environment and, at the same time, performs autonomous decision making guided by operational objectives.