Monitoring current communication networks and services is an increasingly complex task as a result of a growth in the number and variety of components involved. Moreover, different perspectives on network monitoring and optimisation policies must be considered to meet context-dependent monitoring requirements. To face these demanding expectations, this article proposes a semantic-based approach to support the flexible configuration of context-aware network monitoring, where traffic sampling is used to improve efficiency. Thus, a semantic layer is proposed to provide with a standard and interoperable description of the elements, requirements and relevant features in the monitoring domain. On top of this description, semantic rules are applied to make decisions regarding monitoring and auditing policies in a proactive and context-aware manner. Use cases focusing on traffic accounting and traffic classification as monitoring tasks are also provided, demonstrating the expressiveness of the ontology and the contribution of smart SWRL rules for recommending optimised configuration profiles.

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面向上下文感知网络监控的整体语义支持

由于涉及的组件数量和种类不断增加，因此监控当前的通信网络和服务是一项越来越复杂的任务。此外，必须考虑网络监控和优化策略的不同视角，以满足上下文相关的监控要求。面对这些苛刻的期望，本文提出了一种基于语义的方法来支持上下文感知网络监控的灵活配置，其中流量采样用于提高效率。因此，提出了语义层来提供对监控领域中的元素、要求和相关特征的标准和可互操作的描述。在此描述之上，语义规则用于以主动和上下文感知的方式做出有关监视和审计策略的决策。