Gogineni, HemantGreenberg, AlbertMaltz, David A.Ng, T. S. EugeneYan, HongZhang, Hui2017-08-022017-08-022008-12-03Gogineni, Hemant, Greenberg, Albert, Maltz, David A., et al.. "MMS: An Autonomic Network-Layer Foundation for Network Management." (2008) https://hdl.handle.net/1911/96373.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/96373Networks cannot be managed without communication among geographically distributed network devices and control agents. Unfortunately, computer networks today lack an autonomic mechanism that enables such communications, and the stopgap solutions used in practice are seriously flawed. To address the problem, this paper presents the design and implementation of the Meta-Management System (MMS), a network-layer subsystem that provides robust and universal support for management plane communications. The MMS is autonomic, able to self-configure, self-heal, self-optimize, and self-protect. Furthermore, it is efficient, scalable, and evolvable. We demonstrate the practicality of the MMS via a fully functional implementation that runs on commodity hardware. The MMS software is freely available.12 ppengYou are granted permission for the noncommercial reproduction, distribution, display, and performance of this technical report in any format, but this permission is only for a period of forty-five (45) days from the most recent time that you verified that this technical report is still available from the Computer Science Department of Rice University under terms that include this permission. All other rights are reserved by the author(s).Technical reportTR08-11