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OSU CogNet Research

Purpose

As part of our Knowledge Plane seedling project effort we are investigating autonomic problem determination and repair methods in the context of a domain name system (DNS) [Albitz & Liu, 2001]. Our charge is to develop distributed autonomous systems that:

  • Automatically predict and detect anomolies.
  • Automatically can reconfigure and existing systems to avoid these anomolies in the future.

    • We have built an experimental domain name system hierarchy that we are using as a test bed for distributed model based diagnostic research. The test bed consists of 5 networked computer configured to simulate the actual DNS. We have effectively modelled 13 root name servers, 254 Top Level Domains, and 254 Second Level Domains. In this environment we hope to discover solutions to various problems in the DNS as well as develop distributed autonomous agents, DiBots, that will be able to navigate, predict, detect, and correct configuration and operational errors in Internet and networked computer systems.

    People

    Name Institution
    Dr. Thomas Dietterich, Research Faculty Oregon State University
    Dr. Thinh Nguyen, Assistant Professor Oregon State University
    Brandon Harvey, Undergraduate Student Oregon State University
    Aaron Gray, Undergraduate Student Oregon State University
    Nagendra Raj .K., Graduate Student Oregon State University
    David Jones, Undergraduate Student Oregon State University

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