OSEK/VDX network management

Future networked systems will provide system functionalities which are more comprehensive than the sum of the local functionalities of all nodes. Such functionalities require a lot of management tasks which are based on compatible behaviour of all nodes and network wide negotiations. In order to exempt the application from standard network management tasks and to avoid variant management and incompatibility problems the OSEK/VDX Network Management (NM) presents a standardized Application Programming Interface (API), behaviour and protocol.