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Policy Based Control is a management approach in which decision-making is guided by predefined policies or rules. It emphasizes the automation of control processes through the application of policies that dictate actions based on specific conditions, thereby enhancing efficiency, consistency, and compliance in organizational operations.
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Policy Based Control is a management approach in which decision-making is guided by predefined policies or rules. It emphasizes the automation of control processes through the application of policies that dictate actions based on specific conditions, thereby enhancing efficiency, consistency, and compliance in organizational operations.

Key research themes

1. How can dynamic programming and baseline distributions enhance the efficiency and performance guarantees of policy search algorithms in reinforcement learning?

This research area focuses on improving policy search methods in reinforcement learning by integrating dynamic programming techniques with given baseline distributions that estimate state visitation frequencies. This combination aims to create efficient policy search algorithms with provable finite termination and non-trivial performance guarantees, especially in complex environments such as partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs). Understanding and optimizing this interaction matters for developing scalable and reliable reinforcement learning algorithms applicable to robotics, control, and planning tasks under uncertainty.

Key finding: The paper presents the Policy Search by Dynamic Programming (PSDP) algorithm, which leverages a given baseline distribution over states to guide policy search in finite-horizon non-stationary policies. PSDP terminates after a... Read more

2. What computational frameworks and methodologies improve policy design by capturing complex interactions and temporal dynamics among policy measures?

Research in this theme seeks to systematically understand and optimize the vast design space of policy measures, especially their complex interactions and sequencing over time. By applying network-centric approaches and computational methods such as Monte Carlo simulations and decision support systems, this line of work helps reveal interdependencies, optimize policy mixes, and handle temporal issues like delays and drifts. These methodologies are important for creating effective, context-aware policy formulations in various domains, supporting better decision-making and accelerating policy acceptance.

Key finding: This paper introduces a network-centric policy design approach that models policies as networks of interacting measures, enabling classification, visualization, and ranking based on interrelations. The approach incorporates... Read more
Key finding: The paper proposes a formal Universal Policy Model (UPM) that unifies invariant and variant components across different policy approaches. By separating mechanism (invariant parts) from policy (variant parts) and defining... Read more

3. How can policy-based control frameworks support privacy preservation and quality of service (QoS) management in networked and IoT systems through adaptive and decentralized mechanisms?

This research theme addresses the design and implementation of policy-driven architectures that manage privacy and QoS in emerging networked environments, including Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems and converged networks. Key challenges include balancing computational overhead, adapting to heterogeneous technologies, and maintaining security and service guarantees. The research emphasizes the use of private blockchains, smart contracts, fuzzy logic, and policy decomposition to enable decentralized, flexible, and context-aware control that respects user preferences, resource constraints, and system dynamics.

Key finding: The paper proposes a privacy-preserving model for IoT data sharing that leverages private blockchain technology and multiple policy-based smart contracts. By avoiding additional cryptographic layers over existing secured... Read more
Key finding: This work embeds fuzzy logic control within a policy-based network management framework to adaptively allocate network resources for QoS support in converged fixed and wireless networks. The prototype implementation using... Read more
Key finding: The paper presents a policy-based architecture focusing on access network optimization for multimedia services, leveraging Least Cost Routing (LCR) principles and integrating multiple constraints such as SLAs, user profiles,... Read more

All papers in Policy Based Control

This paper addresses the challenge of preserving user privacy within the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem using blockchain technology. Several approaches consider using blockchain and encryption to enhance the privacy of IoT... more
The development of PDPs is a hard task because currently there is not a widely accepted set of protocols to implement the communication between PDPs and other elements of the PBNM solutions. This paper presents a framework to support the... more
HAL is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or... more
NGN is bringing voice, video, data and other tripleplay services to a single platform. Policy Based Network Management (PBNM) is becoming indispensable and complicated while converging those services with assured Quality of Service (QoS).... more
The telecommunications landscape is undergoing a period of dramatic change. A near term next generation network (NGN) is emerging characterized by a rich set of services and a dynamic and competitive marketplace where innovation and time... more
This paper describes an approach to runtime policy-based control over information exchange that allows a far more fine-grained control of these dynamically discovered agent interactions. The DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) is used to... more
Òhe functional architecture of the subsystem picture messaging-IMS (Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem) for multimedia session management for multiservice NGN/IMS networks that determine the interaction systems and NGN protocols are... more
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) permits centralizing part of the decision-logic in controller devices. Thus, controllers can have an overall view of the network, assisting network programmers to configure network-wide services. Despite... more
This paper proposes an architecture for Ambient Networks (AN) management, which is based on components such as Autonomic Networking and Policy Based Network Management. The main goal is to allow AN management aligned to the network... more
Int. J. Internet Protocol Technology, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2008 13 SLA-based dynamic resource management in wireless environments: an enterprise nomadism use case
Fixed and wireless networks are increasingly converging towards common connectivity with IP-based core networks. Providing effective end-to-end resource and QoS management in such complex heterogeneous converged network scenarios requires... more
The development of specifications for Next Generation Networks has introduced a new network paradigm that has features and capabilities to ensure the provisioning of new value-added multimedia services over the broadband access... more
Òhe functional architecture of the subsystem picture messaging-IMS (Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem) for multimedia session management for multiservice NGN/IMS networks that determine the interaction systems and NGN protocols are... more
The development of specifications for next generation networks has introduced a new network paradigm that has features and capabilities to ensure the provisioning of new value-added multimedia services over the broadband access... more
Abstract—NGN is bringing voice, video, data and other tripleplay services to a single platform. Policy Based Network Management (PBNM) is becoming indispensable and complicated while converging those services with assured Quality of... more
Entrepreneurs, infrastructure providers, service operators and carriers are targeting the service, application and infrastructure unification over an all Internet Protocol (IP) platform while providing access technology convergence.... more
A dynamic decision making framework implementing multi criteria routing of multimedia services at private-public network border with access technology convergence is presented. The ingredients of the framework include information model,... more
NGN is bringing voice, video, data and other tripleplay services to a single platform. Policy Based Network Management (PBNM) is becoming indispensable and complicated while converging those services with assured Quality of Service (QoS).... more
NGN is bringing voice, video, data and other tripleplay services to a single platform. Policy Based Network Management (PBNM) is becoming indispensable and complicated while converging those services with assured Quality of Service (QoS).... more
Broadband satellite systems will need specific functions and interfaces in order to fit seamlessly into an end-to-end Next Generation Network (NGN) Quality of Service (QoS) architecture. This paper will define NGN overall architecture,... more
Cross-layer design has been proposed to optimize the performance of networks by exploiting the interrelations among parameters and procedures at different levels of the protocol stack. This paper introduces a quantitative framework for... more
The development of specifications for next generation networks has introduced a new network paradigm that has features and capabilities to ensure the provisioning of new value-added multimedia services over the broadband access... more
Policy Based Resource Management will form the cornerstone of service differentiation that will drive IMS service deployment. While the IMS specifications are largely finalized, the policy based QoS provisioning architecture still faces... more
The development of specifications for Next Generation Networks has introduced a new network paradigm that has features and capabilities to ensure the provisioning of new value-added multimedia services over the broadband access... more
Home networks and home environments are developing so fast that a new generation of residential gateways is needed in order to allow emerging services and the huge amount of available bandwidth to take advantage of this evolution. New... more
Policy-Based Network Management (PBNM) is one of the approaches used by network administration groups for Quality of Service (QoS) and administration on the internet. This paper seeks to propose the adoption of a Policy Creation Model for... more
This paper introduces a concept for the selection of QoS (Quality of Service) monitoring points in SIP-based NGN (Session Initiation Protocol; Next Generation Networks). It is assumed that the majority of effects influencing the QoS of a... more
Recent advancements of IP networks pave the way for Over-the-Top (OTT) applications. Evolved telecom platforms provide revenue potentials via Service Gateways (APIs) on top of VoIP/RCS (IMS), Machine Type Communication (MTC) and Smart Bit... more
Object of research is multiservice communication networks with use of the concept NGN (Next Generation Network) on the basis of an open network architecture IMS (Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem), supporting full range of services.... more
Emergency communication support on the Internet is an important task. In the event of an emergency, such as a disaster, accepting as many VoIP calls as possible in limited bandwidth is an important requirement. Another important... more
This paper introduces a concept for the selection of QoS (Quality of Service) monitoring points in SIP-based NGN (Session Initiation Protocol; Next Generation Networks). It is assumed that the majority of effects influencing the QoS of a... more
This paper introduces a concept for the selection of QoS (Quality of Service) monitoring points in SIP-based NGN (Session Initiation Protocol; Next Generation Networks). It is assumed that the majority of effects influencing the QoS of a... more
Service differentiation is an active topic in 3G networks, which aim at supporting a diversity of IP multimedia services (with diJferent QoS requirements) and users (establishing sessions with diJferent levels of importance). In this... more
A framework for rule-based multimedia network management in multihoming environment is presented. Information diversity with multiple criteria and semantic variations has led us to integrate the Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM)... more
Entrepreneurs, infrastructure providers, service operators and carriers are targeting the service, application and infrastructure unification over an all Internet Protocol (IP) platform while providing access technology convergence.... more
Service unification and application integration have brought about vendors, network operators, service providers, carriers, businesses and infrastructures over a platform while offering the business plans, presenting solution packages,... more
Companies nowadays are approaching towards an all IP paradigm by subscribing to different access technology links from several service providers for reliability, redundancy and availability while providing good Quality of Service (QoS). A... more
NGN is bringing voice, video, data and other tripleplay services to a single platform. Policy Based Network Management (PBNM) is becoming indispensable and complicated while converging those services with assured Quality of Service (QoS).... more
Companies nowadays are approaching towards an all IP paradigm by subscribing to different access technology links from several service providers for reliability, redundancy and availability while providing good Quality of Service (QoS). A... more
NGN is bringing voice, video, data and other tripleplay services to a single platform. Policy Based Network Management (PBNM) is becoming indispensable and complicated while converging those services with assured Quality of Service (QoS).... more
A framework for rule-based multimedia network management in multihoming environment is presented. Information diversity with multiple criteria and semantic variations has led us to integrate the Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM)... more
Entrepreneurs, infrastructure providers, service operators and carriers are targeting the service, application and infrastructure unification over an all Internet Protocol (IP) platform while providing access technology convergence.... more
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