Security An architecture for assuring secure and authenticated signalling will be developed, as well as a unified approach for authenticating end-user traffic flows based on virtual channels. The manager of Imperial's work package is Morris Sloman . Imperial's Work Package - Configuration Management Configuration Management is concerned with defining, constructing and maintaining complex systems in terms of their structure. Components may be primitive or constructed from other components. We have developed a set of graphical tools , textual notations and design methods for configuring systems in terms of their structure.
Dynamic configuration permits both evolutionary change and recovery from component failures.
These tools will be refined and extended for configuring the network management system, network services or distributed applications running over the network. Our research has highlighted the need for flexible configuration of the communication subsystems used by the nodes of a distributed multimedia system. We have developed an object-oriented framework for building communication protocol software from reusable components. This aspect of the research will involve close collaboration with the MPG group at Lancaster . A list of links to information about policy-based management, maintained at Imperial.