Improving network services' resilience using independent configuration replication

Abstract

This paper proposes that the MiNSC's distributed architecture could be used to overcome the limitations of management configurations translations [1]. It uses a configuration independent approach to improve the managed service's resilience, which is based on the dynamic replication of a service node's configuration. This methodology was tested for configuration management of the DNS service and comparisons were made to methods based on traditional static service configuration re-deployment instead. It was found that even though a longer period of time is necessary for completion, the replication of the node's dynamic configurations is possible.