Bonsai: Proposal for Network Damain Ontology towards Open Data

Abstract

WAN (Wide Area Network) administrators have to use various knowledge in a com- plehensive way. Besides, it is important to clarify message semantics exchanged by interdomain network management applications. There are some standardized form of network knowledge such as MIB, YANG and IODEF, however, they are incompatible and not supposed to be used in a cross-sectional way. In this paper, we propose a network ontology called \\Bonsai"" toward general- purpose network management. Bonsai is a tool to integrate network knowledge in a structured way and designed as a database schema of knowledge base in KANVAS Project, which aims to realize WAN management.