Network policy languages a survey and a new approach.

A survey of current network policy languages is presented. Next, a summary of the techniques for detecting policy conflicts is given. Finally, a new language, path-based policy language, which offers improvements to these is introduced. Previous network policy languages vary from the very specific,...

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Published in:	IEEE Network : the magazine of global information exchange 15, 1 (2001).
Main Author:	Stone, G.N
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	IETF. Internet. QoS policies. Best-effort service. Bit level. Differentiated services. Integrated services. Network flows. Network management. Network policy languages. Packet filters. Path-based policies. Path-based policy language. Policy conflicts detection. Policy framework model. Policy-based routing protocols. Quality of service. Security policies. Survey. Wild card characters.