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Leveraging modeling concepts and techniques to address challenges in network management

2023· article· en· W4389610893 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicSoftware System Performance and Reliability
Canadian institutionsQueen's UniversityCisco Systems (Canada)Carleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceNetwork managementVendorViewpointsContext (archaeology)Networking hardwareSoftware-defined networkingThe InternetNetwork monitoringSoftwareActive networkingNetwork management applicationAutomationNetwork management stationComputer networkWorld Wide WebNetwork architectureEngineering

Abstract

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Managing a large enterprise network is a challenging task that involves configuring and monitoring a large number of networking devices from different vendors. To simplify network management, modeling techniques have been extensively applied to model network configurations and monitoring data. The most recent proposed solution in this context are OpenConfig models, which enable vendor-neutral automation. However, adopting networking models requires significant effort and cooperation from various stakeholders.The focus of this paper is to explore the challenges associated with adopting networking models, specifically OpenConfig models, from three primary viewpoints: network engineers, internet service/content providers, and networking software/hardware vendors. We also discuss possible solutions via application of software modeling techniques to aid in the successful adoption of networking models.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.904
Threshold uncertainty score0.280

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.064
GPT teacher head0.307
Teacher spread0.244 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it