Title: A categorisation of policy conflicts in distributed systems and network management

Authors: Sarandis Mitropoulos; Antonios Gouglidis; Vasileios Giotsas

Addresses: Ionian University, Filosofon & Tzeveleki St., 31100 Lefkada, Greece ' School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK ' School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK

Abstract: Policy conflict detection in distributed systems and network management is a crucial issue that strongly influences the management efficiency. In this paper, after investigating thoroughly the related approaches on management policy conflict categorisation, a new systematic categorisation is proposed that is based on four main perspectives, namely, modality, manageability, interoperability and system specification. Subsequently, an organisational network structure that is managed through policies depicts the high applicability of our approach in policy conflict detection, while implementation examples are also given. Finally, conclusions and future work are discussed.

Keywords: management policy; policy hierarchy analysis; policy conflicts; open distributed processing; model checking; PlusCal.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIPSI.2020.115520

International Journal of Information Privacy, Security and Integrity, 2020 Vol.4 No.4, pp.276 - 295

Received: 20 May 2020
Accepted: 06 Feb 2021
Published online: 07 Jun 2021 *

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