The autonomic communication paradigm has been defined mainly through the Autonomic Communications Forum (ACF) and particularly as follows: Autonomic communication is centered on selfware – an innovative approach to perform known and emerging tasks of a network control plane, both end-to-end and middle box communication-based. Selfware assures the capacity to evolve; however, it requires generic network instrumentation. Selfware principles and technologies borrow largely from well-established research on distributed systems, fault tolerance among others, from emerging research on non-conventional networking (multihop ad hoc, sensor, peer-to-peer, group communication, etc. ), and from similar initiatives, such as Autonomic Computing of IBM, Cognitive Network of DARPA, Harmonious Computing of Hitachi, Resonant Networking of NTT, etc. A visionary network would be able to (a) configure and re-configure itself, (b) identify its operational state and take actions to drive itself to a desired stable state and finally (c) organize the allocation and distribution of its resources. To build such a network, it is necessary to go beyond the improvement of techniques and algorithms by using a new concept, the knowledge plane. The knowledge plane is able to collect information available in the network to provide other elements of the network with services and advice and make the network perform what it is supposed to. There are many objectives to the configuration and reconfiguration of the network, from the optimization of resources to the use of best available techniques in order to offer the most appropriate service, best adapted to the t- minal capabilities.
Author(s): S. Schmid, M. Sifalakis, D. Hutchison (auth.), Dominique Gaïti, Guy Pujolle, Ehab Al-Shaer, Ken Calvert, Simon Dobson, Guy Leduc, Olli Martikainen (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4195 : Computer Communication Networks and Telecommunications
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 316
Tags: Computer Communication Networks; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Information Storage and Retrieval; Communications Engineering, Networks
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Autonomous Agents for Self-managed MPLS DiffServ-TE Domain....Pages 119-131
An Efficient Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for Quality of Service Networks....Pages 132-145
Artificial Intelligence Techniques in the Dynamic Negotiation of QoS: A User Interface for the Internet New Generation....Pages 146-158
An Approach to Integrated Semantic Service Discovery....Pages 159-171
Policy-Based Management and Context Modelling Contributions for Supporting Services in Autonomic Systems....Pages 172-187
Implicit Context-Sensitive Mobile Computing Using Semantic Policies....Pages 188-200
GXLA a Language for the Specification of Service Level Agreements....Pages 201-214
A Service Management Approach for Self-healing Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 215-228
Integration of Mobile IPv6 into Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Systems....Pages 229-242
AToM: Atomic Topology Management of Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 243-254
Towards Autonomic Networks....Pages 1-11
A Cognitive Architecture for Personal Networks....Pages 12-24
A Cross-Layer Architecture for Autonomic Communications....Pages 25-35
Self-configuration of Network Devices with Configuration Logic....Pages 36-49
Dynamic Decision Making for Candidate Access Point Selection....Pages 50-63
A Multi Agent System Approach for Self Resource Regulation in IP Networks....Pages 64-75
DoS Protection for a Pragmatic Multiservice Network Based on Programmable Networks....Pages 76-85
Lessons for Autonomic Services from the Design of an Anonymous DoS Protection Overlay....Pages 86-96
An Extensible and Flexible System for Network Anomaly Detection....Pages 97-108
Design and Implementation of a Service Provisioning Platform Using Smart Cards....Pages 109-118
An Architecture for Autonomic Management of Ambient Networks....Pages 255-267
Autonomic Communications: Exploiting Advanced and Game Theoretical Techniques for RAT Selection and Protocol Reconfiguration....Pages 268-284
Managing Policies for Dynamic Spectrum Access....Pages 285-297
An Intermediate Framework for Unifying and Automating Mobile Communication Systems....Pages 298-314
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