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Abstract
With the massive increase in network traffic, network management became a hard job which is highly dependent on skillful network engineers. Autonomic Network Management (ANM) seems to be a very promising solution for most of the difficulties found in today legacy networks. Autonomic network management is related to the concepts of network self-configuration, self-optimization and self-healing. ANM is an abstract concept and it lacks the tool for practical implementation. Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a new networking paradigm that provides a centralized, flexible and programmable interface for network control. In this thesis, we propose to build an autonomic network management system using an SDN compiler approach. Using the developed compiler, the network operator should describe the service requirements using a declarative service-oriented policy language, and the compiler should compile these policies and generate needed forwarding rules over individual forwarding devices. We have chosen to apply our approach to reduce the complexity of service provider MPLS backbone networks which are well known by a complicated control plane. We have implemented four services which are commonly deployed in service providers which are VPLS VPN service, VPWS VPN service, Traffic Engineering service and congestion-free failure recovery service. We have tested our approach by comparing the performance of our approach to the performance of the legacy management approach using different network topologies with different service requirements. Simulation results show a great enhancement from both the ease of network management point of view and the network efficiency point of view.