This is one of the tools I developed as part of my PhD at the University of Edinburgh. There isn't much documentation around, but feel free to get in touch by email!
Here a short abstract:
Stix is a platform managing emerging large-scale broadband wireless access (BWA) networks. It has been developed to make it easy to manage such networks for community deployments and wireless Internet service providers while keeping the network management infrastructure scalable and flexible. Stix is based on the notions of goal-oriented and in-network management. With Stix, administrators graphically specify network management activities as workflows, which are deployed at a distributed set of agents within the network that cooperate in executing those work-flows and storing management information.
Please refer to this publication:
Giacomo Bernardi, Matt Calder, Damon Fenacci, Alex Macmillan, and M. K. Marina. Stix: A Goal-Oriented Distributed Management System for Large-Scale Broadband Wireless Access Networks. In proceedings of ACM Mobicom 2010.
and to Chapter 5 of my thesis, which is available here.
Additionally, a few other articles:
- Demo: Giacomo Bernardi, Matt Calder, Damon Fenacci, Alex Macmillan, and M. K. Marina. A Demonstration of the Stix Management System for Broadband Wireless Access Networks. In ACM Mobicom 2010. Poster and Flyer.
- Demo: Giacomo Bernardi, Matt Calder, Dadmon Fenacci, Alex Macmillan, and M. K. Marina. A Demonstration of the Stix Management System for Broadband Wireless Access Networks. In WiNTECH 2010 workshop of ACM Mobicom 2010. Winner of the 'WINCOOL (aka the Next Big Thing in Wireless)' competition. Poster and Flyer.
- Conference Paper: Giacomo Bernardi and Mahesh K. Marina. A System for Easing Management of Broadband Wireless Access Networks. In proceedings of Extremecom 2009. Here.