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 Welcome to Autonomic Communication - a new communication paradigm for evolving Internet
under construction

 
      Autonomic Communication
Development
AC in Call4 is announced
(29.06.04)

IFIP Workshop on Autono-
mic Communication is an-
nounced (20.05.04)

Draft call text for Situa-
ted and Autonomic Com-
munication is out

Summary report is
published (19.05.04)

AC prospective is
presented at Consultation
Meeting in Brussels
(3-4.03.04)
ComPar2020 report  is
published (29.04.04)

AC is introduced at
Communication Paradigms
for 2020 brainstorming
meeting in Brussels
(22.07.03)

About Autonomic Communication
   Communications are a key sector of constantly growing importance for the economic and social development of Europe. FET (Future and Emerging Technologies), in accordance to its mission, seeks to identify possible areas for long-term, foundational, high risk and visionary research in communications.

FET Logo (Tree)FET is the IST programme nursery of novel and emerging scientific ideas. Its mission is to promote research that is of a long-term nature or involves particularly high risks, compensated by the potential of a significant societal or industrial impact. As such, FET is not constrained by the IST programme priorities but rather aims to open new possibilities and set new trends for future research programmes in Information Society Technologies.

FET identified different prospectives of new communication paradigm:
  • Autonomic Communication [ pdf]
  • Networks beyond a Packet Transport Engine [pdf]
  • Cognitive Sensor Networks [pdf]
  • Leveraging Meaning into the Network [pdf]
  • Hybrid-Coupled Networks [pdf]
  • Fundamental limits of Autonomic Communication [pdf]
  • Security [pdf]

About this site
   Autonomic-communication.org  is a forum for discussion and coordination of research in the area of situated (context-aware) and autonomic communication.
   Motivation: the increasingly higher density mesh of components of communications systems and the resulting growing complexity of control requires more and more distributed and selforganising structures, relying on simple and dependable elements able to collaborate to produce sophisticated behaviours.
   Vision: The main feature of future communication paradigms will be the ability to adapt to an evolving situation, where new resources can become available, administrative domains can change and economic models can vary accordingly.  The vision is that of a world pervaded by ubiquitous communication facilities, offering their services to the users and capable of self-organising and self-preserving their functionalities without any direct human intervention. This entails fundamental advances both in the architecture and functionality of the network, and in the characterisation and understanding of the common communication medium.
   Goal: is to promote research in the area of new paradigms for communication/networking systems that can be characterised as situated (i.e. reacting locally on environment and context changes), autonomously controlled, self-organising, radically distributed, technology independent and scale-free. Consequently, communication/networking should become task- and knowledge-driven and fully scalable.
Learn more about implementation modalities in FET draft Call text

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