Name 	   : Uma Tamilarasan
 Login Id  : uxtamila
 Subject   : CS843  - Research Proposal

Topic :  Autonomic Distributed Computing in Security Management  - Stokes the computing fire.

Goals :

	- Analyzing the autonomic working in Security Management.
        - Design and working of the autonomic distributed firewall components like Packet - filtering router, Application -level gateway and Circuit-level gateway.
        - Security management of the autonomic distributed firewall.
        - How the autonomic distributed firewall is built and how it works.
        - Exploring the future research areas in Autonomic Distributed Computing.

Scope :
        The vision of autonomic computing embraces the development of intelligent, open  complex systems capable of running themselves with the following features :
    - Anticipate a user's needs in Security Management.
    -  Never settle for the status quo; always looks for ways to optimize its workings.
    - Anticipate the optimized resources needed while keeping its complexity hidden from 
the user.
    - Excellent autonomic working in Security Management
    - Have a high degree of self-protection against any form of attack.

References :

1. IBM Research,  Autonomic Computing, 
   http://www.research.ibm.com/autonomic/

2. Salim Hariri, Lizhi Xue, Huoping Chen, Ming Zhang, Sathija Pavuluri, 
   Soujanya Rao
   Autonomia, Autonomic Computing Environment,
   http://www.ece.arizona.edu/~hpdc/projects/AUTONOMIA/Autonomia.doc

3. Tom Markham and Charlie Payne
   Security at the Network Edge : a Distributed Firewall Architecture
   http://www.securecomputing.com/pdf/dist_firewall_arch.pdf

4. Nextep Broadband,
   Firewall Architecture,
   http://www.nextep.com.au/pdf/Firewall_Architecture.PDF
   June 2001

5. Brian Williams and Pandu Nayak, 
   Tutorial on Model-based Autonomous System,
   https://postdoc.arc.nasa.gov/postdoc/t/folder/main.ehtml?url_id=34685