O modelo de programação baseado em atores é frequentemente utilizado para o desenvolvimento de grandes aplicações e sistemas. Podemos citar como exemplo o serviço de bate-papo do Facebook ou ainda o WhatsApp. Estes sistemas dão suporte a milhares de usuários conectados simultaneamente levando em conta estritas restrições de desempenho e interatividade. Tais sistemas normalmente são amparados por infraestruturas de hardware com processadores de múltiplos núcleos. Normalmente, máquinas deste porte são baseadas em uma estrutura de memória compartilhada hierarquicamente (NUMA - Non-Uniform Memory Access). Nossa análise dos atuais ambientes de execução para atores e a pesquisa na literatura mostram que poucos estudos sobre a adequação deste ambientes a essas plataformas hierárquicas foram conduzidos. Estes ambientes de execução normalmente assumem que o espaço de memória é uniforme o que pode causar sérios problemas de desempenho. Nesta tese nós estudamos os desafios enfrentados por um ambiente de execução para atores quando da sua execução nestas plataformas. Estudamos particularmente os problemas de gerenciamento de memória, de escalonamento e de balanceamento de carga. Neste documento nós também analisamos e caracterizamos as aplicações baseadas no modelo de atores. Tal análise nos permitiu evidenciar o fato de que a execução de benchmarks e aplicações criam estruturas de comunicação peculiares entre os atores. Tais peculiaridades podem, então, ser utilizadas pelos ambientes de execução para otimizar o seu desempenho. A avaliação dos grafos de comunicação e a implementação da prova de conceito foram feitas utilizando um ambiente de execução real, a máquina virtual da linguagem Erlang. A linguagem Erlang utiliza o modelo de atores para concorrência com uma sintaxe clara e consistente. As modificações que nós efetuamos nesta máquina virtual permitiram uma melhora significativa no desempenho de certas aplicações através de uma melhor afinidade de comunicação entre os atores. O escalonamento e o balanceamento de carga também foram melhorados graças à utilização do conhecimento sobre o comportamento da aplicação e sobre a plataforma de hardware. / The actor model is present in several mission-critical systems, such as those supporting WhatsApp and Facebook Chat. These systems serve thousands of clients simultaneously, therefore demanding substantial computing resources usually provided by multi-processor and multi-core platforms. Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architectures account for an important share of these platforms. Yet, research on the suitability of the current actor runtime environments for these machines is very limited. Current runtime environments, in general, assume a flat memory space, thus not performing as well as they could. In this thesis we study the challenges hierarchical shared memory multi-core platforms present to actor runtime environments. In particular, we investigate aspects related to memory management, scheduling, and load-balancing. In this document, we analyze and characterize actor based applications to, in light of the above, propose improvements to actor runtime environments. This analysis highlighted the existence of peculiar communication structures. We argue that the comprehension of these structures and the knowledge about the underlying hardware architecture can be used in tandem to improve application performance. As a proof of concept, we implemented our proposal using a real actor runtime environment, the Erlang Virtual Machine (VM). Concurrency in Erlang is based on the actor model and the language has a consistent syntax for actor handling. Our modifications to the Erlang VM significantly improved the performance of some applications thanks to better informed decisions on scheduling and on load-balancing.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:36:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 3033244 bytes, checksum: e99c06debab1ade6a603c593035a9da1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-01-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / With the economic growth experienced in recent years, many brazilian cities have also encountered problems such as population growth, congestion of vehicles and violence. At the same time, the purchasing power of the population has grown, allowing many of them to purchase new equipment, such as mobile phones, with Brazil surpassed the barrier of a cell phone per inhabitant. This study aimed to examine the feasibility of using computer simulation systems, using data from the mobile telephone network, aiming a system of urban monitoring usig vehicles. The results showed that the higher was the number of vehicles on public streets, most will hit rate with the data from the cellular network using the methodology of Erlang. / Com o crescimento econômico vivido nos últimos anos, muitas cidades brasileiras têm também se deparado com problemas como o aumento populacional, congestionamento de veículos e a violência. Ao mesmo tempo, o poder aquisitivo dos habitantes tem crescido, permitindo que muitos pudessem adquirir novos equipamentos, como os telefones celulares, tendo o Brasil ultrapassado a barreira de um telefone celular por habitante. Esse trabalho objetivou a analise de viabilidade do uso de sistemas de simulação computacional, utilizando dados da rede de telefonia móvel celular, visando um sistema de monitoramento urbano com veículos. Os resultados mostraram que, quanto maior foi o número de veículos em circulação nas vias públicas, maior será a taxa de acerto com os dados oriundos da rede de telefonia celular utilizando a metodologia de Erlang.

O modelo de programação baseado em atores é frequentemente utilizado para o desenvolvimento de grandes aplicações e sistemas. Podemos citar como exemplo o serviço de bate-papo do Facebook ou ainda o WhatsApp. Estes sistemas dão suporte a milhares de usuários conectados simultaneamente levando em conta estritas restrições de desempenho e interatividade. Tais sistemas normalmente são amparados por infraestruturas de hardware com processadores de múltiplos núcleos. Normalmente, máquinas deste porte são baseadas em uma estrutura de memória compartilhada hierarquicamente (NUMA - Non-Uniform Memory Access). Nossa análise dos atuais ambientes de execução para atores e a pesquisa na literatura mostram que poucos estudos sobre a adequação deste ambientes a essas plataformas hierárquicas foram conduzidos. Estes ambientes de execução normalmente assumem que o espaço de memória é uniforme o que pode causar sérios problemas de desempenho. Nesta tese nós estudamos os desafios enfrentados por um ambiente de execução para atores quando da sua execução nestas plataformas. Estudamos particularmente os problemas de gerenciamento de memória, de escalonamento e de balanceamento de carga. Neste documento nós também analisamos e caracterizamos as aplicações baseadas no modelo de atores. Tal análise nos permitiu evidenciar o fato de que a execução de benchmarks e aplicações criam estruturas de comunicação peculiares entre os atores. Tais peculiaridades podem, então, ser utilizadas pelos ambientes de execução para otimizar o seu desempenho. A avaliação dos grafos de comunicação e a implementação da prova de conceito foram feitas utilizando um ambiente de execução real, a máquina virtual da linguagem Erlang. A linguagem Erlang utiliza o modelo de atores para concorrência com uma sintaxe clara e consistente. As modificações que nós efetuamos nesta máquina virtual permitiram uma melhora significativa no desempenho de certas aplicações através de uma melhor afinidade de comunicação entre os atores. O escalonamento e o balanceamento de carga também foram melhorados graças à utilização do conhecimento sobre o comportamento da aplicação e sobre a plataforma de hardware. / The actor model is present in several mission-critical systems, such as those supporting WhatsApp and Facebook Chat. These systems serve thousands of clients simultaneously, therefore demanding substantial computing resources usually provided by multi-processor and multi-core platforms. Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architectures account for an important share of these platforms. Yet, research on the suitability of the current actor runtime environments for these machines is very limited. Current runtime environments, in general, assume a flat memory space, thus not performing as well as they could. In this thesis we study the challenges hierarchical shared memory multi-core platforms present to actor runtime environments. In particular, we investigate aspects related to memory management, scheduling, and load-balancing. In this document, we analyze and characterize actor based applications to, in light of the above, propose improvements to actor runtime environments. This analysis highlighted the existence of peculiar communication structures. We argue that the comprehension of these structures and the knowledge about the underlying hardware architecture can be used in tandem to improve application performance. As a proof of concept, we implemented our proposal using a real actor runtime environment, the Erlang Virtual Machine (VM). Concurrency in Erlang is based on the actor model and the language has a consistent syntax for actor handling. Our modifications to the Erlang VM significantly improved the performance of some applications thanks to better informed decisions on scheduling and on load-balancing.

Mobile subscriptions are steadily increasing, making it more relevant to collect data and make useful statistics. To handle these large data sets, robust databases must be built. Two important factors for databases are storing the information persistently and having an adequate read and write speed to the database. This thesis project will study the implementation to fulfill these factors along with the comparison between a non-relational database structure and a relational database structure. The system will be written in the database management system Mnesia in the programming language Erlang. This study was conducted at Mobile Arts AB in Stockholm, Sweden. The company requested a system with different modules to build a query language used to extract relevant statistics. Large amounts of data should be processed through the file processor and stored in a database efficiently. A system based on two different database structures was built and compared to achieve the most efficient system among the two database structures. To measure the performance of the system and to compare the database structures, benchmarks were executed to determine the most efficient method. The results show that the non-relational database has a faster input processing speed compared to the relational one, while the relational database structure was faster in output processing. The conclusion is that the non-relational database works better for the system of this thesis project. / Antalet mobilabonnemang ökar stadigt, vilket gör det mer relevant att samla in data samt bygga värdefull statistik. För att hantera stora datamängder måste stabila och robusta databaser byggas. Två viktiga faktorer för databaser är att kunna lagra informationen och att kunna skriva till och läsa från databasen snabbt. Detta arbete kommer studera implementationen för att uppfylla dessa faktorer samt jämföra icke-relationsdatabasstrukturen med relationsdatabasstrukturen. Systemet kommer skrivas i databas-hanteraren Mnesia, i programmerings-språket Erlang. Studien utfördes på Mobile ArtsABi Stockholm. Företaget efterfrågade ett system med flera moduler tillsammans med ett egetdefinierat frågespråk för att kunna bygga relevant statistik. Stora mängder data skulle processeras genom filprocessorn och lagras i databasen på ett effektivt sätt. Ett system med två olika databasstrukturer implementerades och jämfördes för att hitta det mest effektiva systemet mellan de två databasstrukturerna. Prestandamätningar på systemet utfördes för att mäta vilken databasstruktur som gav mest effektiva resultat. Resultatet visar att icke-relationsdatabasen är snabbare vad gäller inmatningshastighet jämfört med systemet med relationsdatabas, medan relationsdatabasen hade en snabbare utmatningshastighet. Slutsatsen är att icke-relationsdatabasen fungerar bättre till systemet för detta arbete.

As atividades de validação, verificação e teste contribuem para melhorar a qualidade dos programas, independentemente do paradigma de programação utilizado. Erlang é um exemplo de linguagem funcional, e aspectos como: dados imutáveis, higher-order functions, lazy evaluation e pattern matching impõem restrições à atividade de teste estrutural de software, as quais requerem uma atenção especial do testador. A linguagem Erlang foi criada para o desenvolvimento de aplicações concorrentes, em tempo real e com tolerância a falhas. A aplicação da atividade de teste de software torna-se necessária para aplicações desenvolvidas em Erlang. Um mapeamento sistemático realizado identificou os trabalhos relacionados e também a identificação de falhas típicas encontradas em programas Erlang. O resultado do mapeamento evidenciou a falta de propostas que considerem as principais características de Erlang, incluindo uma ferramenta de teste que dê suporte à aplicação prática da atividade de teste. Esta lacuna foi considerada significativa. Foi proposto um conjunto de critérios de teste estruturais para verificar a cobertura de códigos em aplicações sequenciais e distribuídas de programas Erlang. Os critérios de teste exploram as possíveis falhas relacionadas à comunicação entre funções, comunicação entre processos, sincronização, concorrência, recursividade e tolerância a falhas. A definição dos critérios contou com o suporte de um modelo de teste para a obtenção das informações sobre o fluxo de controle, fluxo de dados e fluxo de comunicação de programas Erlang. O modelo estabeleceu 15 tipos de nós, 9 tipos de arestas e 5 tipos de usos de variáveis. Para apoiar a aplicação dos critérios, uma ferramenta de teste, chamada Valierlang, também foi implementada. A ValiErlang é composta por 5 módulos que realizam as seguintes etapas: análise estática, instrumentação do código fonte, geração do GFC, definição dos elementos requeridos, execução do código instrumentado, geração do rastro de execução e avaliação dos elementos cobertos e elementos não executáveis. Foi realizado um estudo experimental para verificar a aplicabilidade dos critérios de teste por meio da ValiErlang. Neste estudo foram utilizados seis programas com diferentes características, todas essenciais aos programas em Erlang. Com base nos resultados obtidos, foi possível comprovar que a abordagem contribui com o testador devido ao sucesso na aplicação dos critérios e também a eficácia dos critérios em revelar defeitos. E as etapas para o testador de software realizar a aplicação do teste estrutural, tem o apoio ferramental da ValiErlang. / The validation, verification and test activities contribute to improve the quality of the programs, independently of the used programing paradigm. Erlang is an example of functional language and aspects such as: immutable data, higher-order functions, lazy evaluation e pattern matching impose restrictions to the software structural testing activity, which require a special attention by the tester. The Erlang language was created for the development of concurrent applications, in real time and with fault tolerance. The application of the software testing activity becomes necessary for applications developed in Erlang. An executed systematic mapping identified the related works and the identification of typical failures found in Erlang programs. The result of the mapping highlighted the lack of proposals that consider the main features of Erlang, including a testing tool that supports the practical application of the testing activity. This gap was considered significant. A set of structural testing criteria was proposed to verify the coverage of codes in sequential and distributed applications in Erlang programs. The test criteria explore the possible failure related to the communication between functions, communication between processes, synchronization, concurrence, recursion and fault tolerance. The definition of the criteria had the support of a test model to obtain information about control flux, data flux, and communication flux of Erlang programs. The model established 15 types of nodes, 9 types of edges and 5 types of variable uses. To support the application of criteria, a testing tool called ValiErlang was also implemented. ValiErlang is composed of 5 modules that execute the following stages: static analysis, source code instrumentation, CFG generation, definition of the required elements, instrumented code execution, execution trace generation and evaluation of the covered and non-executable elements. An experimental study was executed to verify the applicability of the testing criteria by ValiErlang. In this study six programs with different characteristics were used. All characteristics were essential to the Erlang programs. Based on the obtained results, it was possible to prove that the approach contributes with the tester because of the success in the criteria application and the efficiency of the criteria in revealing defects. The stages for the testes to execute the structural test application have the support of the Erlang tool.

The Bluetooth technology is still in an early stage of development. Much more research can and will be done before the performance of Bluetooth reaches its peak. During the recent years, ideas to integrate Bluetooth units in larger networks have arose, with the Bluetooth unit in the role as access point to the network. This behavior opens up for new possibilities but also increases the requirements on performance. In this thesis the main topic is improvement of piconet performance. The piconet, with the Master unit as access point, is studied from a teletraffic engineering point of view. Different performance attributes and behaviors have been found and investigated. With the outcome of these investigations in mind, new and more efficient policies and algorithms are proposed for both data and voice. A policy increasing the utilization of available bandwidth in a piconet is presented. Furthermore, a proposal is presented where multiple Bluetooth units are used in an efficient manner to support voice calls. The proposed solution does also enable creation of simple teletraffic models to be used for dimensioning. / Phone: +46709138850

As atividades de validação, verificação e teste contribuem para melhorar a qualidade dos programas, independentemente do paradigma de programação utilizado. Erlang é um exemplo de linguagem funcional, e aspectos como: dados imutáveis, higher-order functions, lazy evaluation e pattern matching impõem restrições à atividade de teste estrutural de software, as quais requerem uma atenção especial do testador. A linguagem Erlang foi criada para o desenvolvimento de aplicações concorrentes, em tempo real e com tolerância a falhas. A aplicação da atividade de teste de software torna-se necessária para aplicações desenvolvidas em Erlang. Um mapeamento sistemático realizado identificou os trabalhos relacionados e também a identificação de falhas típicas encontradas em programas Erlang. O resultado do mapeamento evidenciou a falta de propostas que considerem as principais características de Erlang, incluindo uma ferramenta de teste que dê suporte à aplicação prática da atividade de teste. Esta lacuna foi considerada significativa. Foi proposto um conjunto de critérios de teste estruturais para verificar a cobertura de códigos em aplicações sequenciais e distribuídas de programas Erlang. Os critérios de teste exploram as possíveis falhas relacionadas à comunicação entre funções, comunicação entre processos, sincronização, concorrência, recursividade e tolerância a falhas. A definição dos critérios contou com o suporte de um modelo de teste para a obtenção das informações sobre o fluxo de controle, fluxo de dados e fluxo de comunicação de programas Erlang. O modelo estabeleceu 15 tipos de nós, 9 tipos de arestas e 5 tipos de usos de variáveis. Para apoiar a aplicação dos critérios, uma ferramenta de teste, chamada Valierlang, também foi implementada. A ValiErlang é composta por 5 módulos que realizam as seguintes etapas: análise estática, instrumentação do código fonte, geração do GFC, definição dos elementos requeridos, execução do código instrumentado, geração do rastro de execução e avaliação dos elementos cobertos e elementos não executáveis. Foi realizado um estudo experimental para verificar a aplicabilidade dos critérios de teste por meio da ValiErlang. Neste estudo foram utilizados seis programas com diferentes características, todas essenciais aos programas em Erlang. Com base nos resultados obtidos, foi possível comprovar que a abordagem contribui com o testador devido ao sucesso na aplicação dos critérios e também a eficácia dos critérios em revelar defeitos. E as etapas para o testador de software realizar a aplicação do teste estrutural, tem o apoio ferramental da ValiErlang. / The validation, verification and test activities contribute to improve the quality of the programs, independently of the used programing paradigm. Erlang is an example of functional language and aspects such as: immutable data, higher-order functions, lazy evaluation e pattern matching impose restrictions to the software structural testing activity, which require a special attention by the tester. The Erlang language was created for the development of concurrent applications, in real time and with fault tolerance. The application of the software testing activity becomes necessary for applications developed in Erlang. An executed systematic mapping identified the related works and the identification of typical failures found in Erlang programs. The result of the mapping highlighted the lack of proposals that consider the main features of Erlang, including a testing tool that supports the practical application of the testing activity. This gap was considered significant. A set of structural testing criteria was proposed to verify the coverage of codes in sequential and distributed applications in Erlang programs. The test criteria explore the possible failure related to the communication between functions, communication between processes, synchronization, concurrence, recursion and fault tolerance. The definition of the criteria had the support of a test model to obtain information about control flux, data flux, and communication flux of Erlang programs. The model established 15 types of nodes, 9 types of edges and 5 types of variable uses. To support the application of criteria, a testing tool called ValiErlang was also implemented. ValiErlang is composed of 5 modules that execute the following stages: static analysis, source code instrumentation, CFG generation, definition of the required elements, instrumented code execution, execution trace generation and evaluation of the covered and non-executable elements. An experimental study was executed to verify the applicability of the testing criteria by ValiErlang. In this study six programs with different characteristics were used. All characteristics were essential to the Erlang programs. Based on the obtained results, it was possible to prove that the approach contributes with the tester because of the success in the criteria application and the efficiency of the criteria in revealing defects. The stages for the testes to execute the structural test application have the support of the Erlang tool.

The most suitable model that idealizes random sequences of shock and impacts on vibratory systems is that of a random train of pulses (or impulses), whose arrivals are characterized in terms of stochastic point processes. Most of the existing methods of stochastic dynamics are relevant to random impulsive excitations driven by Poisson processes and there exist some methods for Erlang renewal-driven impulse processes. Herein, two classes of random impulse processes are considered. The first one is the train of impulses whose interarrival timesare driven by an Erlang renewal process. The second class is obtained by selecting some impulses from the train driven by an Erlang renewal process. The selection is performed with the aid of the jump, zero-one, stochastic process governed by the stochastic differential equation driven by the independent Erlang renewal processes. The underlying counting process, driving the arrival times of the impulses, is fully characterized. The expressions for the probability density functions of the first and second waiting times are derived and by means of these functions it is proved that the underlying counting process is a renewal (non-Erlang) process. The probability density functions of the interarrival times are evaluated for four different cases of the driving process and the results obtained for some example sets of parameters are shown graphically. The advantage of modeling the interarrival times using the class of non-Erlang renewal processes analyzed in the present dissertation, rather than the Poisson or Erlang distributions is that it is possible to deal with a broader class of the interarrival probability density functions. The non-Erlang renewal processes considered herein, obtained from two independent Erlang renewal processes, are characterized by four parameters that can be chosen to fit more closely the actual data on the distribution of the interarrival times. As the renewal counting process is not the one with independent increments, the state vector of the dynamic system under a renewal impulse process excitation is not a Markov process. The non-Markov problem may be then converted into a Markov one at the expense of augmenting the state vector by auxiliary discrete stochastic variables driven by a Poisson process. Other than the existing in literature (Iwankiewicz and Nielsen), a novel technique of conversion is devised here, where the auxiliary variables are all zero-one processes. In a considered class of non-Erlang renewal impulse processes each of the driving Erlang processes is recast in terms of the Poisson process, the augmented state vector driven by two independent Poisson processes becomes a non-diffusive Markov process. For a linear oscillator, under a considered class of non-Erlang renewal impulse process, the equations for response moments are obtained from the generalized Ito’s differential rule and the mean value and variance of the response are evaluated and shown graphically for some selected sets of parameters. For a non-linear oscillator under both Erlang renewal-driven impulses and the considered class of non-Erlang renewal impulse processes, the technique of equations for moments together with a modified closure technique is devised. The specific physical properties of an impulsive load process allow to modify the classical cumulant-neglect closure scheme and to develop a more efficient technique for the class of excitations considered. The joint probability density of the augmented state vector is expressed as sum of contributions conditioned on the ‘on’ and ‘off’ states of the auxiliary variables. A discrete part of the joint probability density function accounts for the fact that there is a finite probability of the system being in a deterministic state (for example at rest) from the initial time to the occurrence of the first impulse. The continuous part, which is the conditional probability given that the first impulse has occurred, can be expressed in terms of functions of the displacement and velocity of the system. These functions can be viewed as unknown probability densities of a bi-variate stochastic process, each of which originates a set of ‘conditional moments’. The set of relationships between unconditional and conditional moments is derived. The ordinary cumulant neglect closure is then performed on the conditional moments pertinent to the continuous part only. The closure scheme is then formulated by expressing the ‘unconditional’ moments of order greater then the order of closure, in terms of unconditional moments of lower order. The stochastic analysis of a Duffing oscillator under the the random train of impulses driven by an Erlang renewal processes and a non-Erlang renewal process R(t), is performed by applying the second order ordinary cumulant neglect closure and the modified second order closure approximation and the approximate analytical results are verified against direct Monte Carlo simulation. The modified closure scheme proves to give better results for highly non-Gaussian train of impulses, characterized by low mean arrival rate.

This document summarizes a research effort focused on improving live-to-virtual (L-V) communication systems. The purpose of this work is to address a significant challenge facing the tactical communications training community through the development of the Live-to-Virtual Relay Radio Prediction Algorithm and implementation of the algorithm into an Integrated Live-to-Virtual Communications Server prototype device. The motivation for the work and the challenges of integrating live and virtual communications are presented. Details surrounding the formulation of the prediction algorithm and a description of the prototype system, hardware, and software architectures are shared. Experimental results from discrete event simulation analysis and prototype functionality testing accompany recommendations for future investigation. If the methods and technologies summarized are implemented, an estimated equipment savings of 25%-53% and an estimated cost savings of $150,000.00 - $630,000.00 per site are anticipated. Thus, a solution to a critical tactical communications training problem is presented through the research discussed.

The Network Service Ochestrator (NSO) is a network automation system provided by Cisco that is used to automate large network changes with the ability to roll back in case of errors. It provides a rich northbound interface to communicate with the user and a southbound interface to orchestrate network devices securely. On these northbound and southbound interfaces, NSO supports NETCONF and RESTCONF, which is an IETF standard for network automation. NSO native implementation of NETCONF and RESTCONF lacks support for Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) (PKIX) infrastructure and SSH and SSL/TLS as transport. Instead, Cisco suggests that customers use external relay agents such as PKIX-SSH for SSH and GNUTLS for TLS for NETCONF. The certificates and keys are saved on the hard drive and loaded for every connection via RESTCONF. This workaround solution provides authentication and authorization without audit logging within NSO. In this work, a native implementation of the X509 certification with PKIX infrastructure on SSH and SSL/TLS for NETCONF and RESTCONF is investigated. The project evaluates design alternatives with respect to security, computational complexity, maintainability, and user-friendliness, and concludes by highlighting the pros and cons of both native and workaround implementation. / Ciscos NSO är en nätverksorkestreringsplatform som används för att automatisera stora ändringar i nätverk med egenheten att ändringarna kan backas tillbaka om inte samtliga kan kan utföras. NSO tillhandahåller användare gränssnitt (northbound) för att säkert kommunicera (southbound) med nätverksenheterna. Gränssnitten stödjer de standardiserade protokollen Netconf och Restconf. Båda dessa protokoll saknar inbyggts stöd för PKIX över SSH, SSL och TSL. När detta önskas rekommenderar Cisco sina kunder att externa klienter som PKIX-SSH eller GNUTLS. När detta görs sparas certifikat och nyklar lokalt för varje Restconf koppel och ingen läggning av flödet kommer att ske i NSO. I detta arbete presenteras ett inbyggt stöd för X509 certifiering med PKIX för SSH, SSL, och TLS. Stödet kan användas för Netconf och Restconf. Olikheter mellan dagens tillgängliga stöd och det inbyggda stödet med avseende på säkerhet, komplexitet, underhållbarhet, och användarvänlighet jämförs. Avslutningsvis belyses för- respektive nackdelar med de olika implementateringarna.