Research Groups

This article presents a summary of research groups at universities and other institutes (many inside Europe) which focus on Network Management research and Network Management software development:

Professional organizations

• COMSOC The IEEE Communications Society
• The CNOM Web - Committee on Network Operation and Management.

Research groups of the IRTF

• Network management - The Network Management Research Group (NMRG) provides a forum for researchers to explore new technologies for the management of the Internet. In particular, the NMRG will work on solutions for problems that are not yet considered well understood enough for engineering work within the IETF.

Companies

• Bell Laboratories - The goal of the Network and Service Management (NSM) research department at Bell Labs is to provide conceptual clarity to the structure of network management problems and build next generation NSM tools.

Universities

Country	University	Research Group
DE	University of Munich (LMU)	Munich Network Management Team
FR	INRIA - Nancy	MADYNES - INRIA - Nancy
UK	University College London	Networks and Services Research Laboratory
NL	University of Twente	DACS - Design and Analysis of Communication Systems