Welcome to Autonomic
Communication - a new communication paradigm for evolving Internet
under
construction
eFI - evolutionary
approach to Future Internet
Following the
evolutionary approach to Future Internet and sharing eMobility's view of evolving mobile networking as the
prototype of this Future Internet one needs to understand what is
the most promising research direction that helps to achieve the
impact.
But, first, what is the vision of the evolving mobile
networking, where it evolves to? It is argued here that the future of
mobile networking is being defined by the two needs:
the need
for Mobile Network Operators (MNO) to share the resources, so that all
the resources - wireline and wireless - of all networks are available
to all users; thus the multiple and heterogeneous mobile networks
appear to the users as Computing and
Communication Cloud (CCC) operated by a single [virtual]
meta-operator, which requires novel
business models;
the need
for the CCC operator to run the cloud as cost-efficient, versatile,
robust, and fair infrastructure; in particular urgent are the problems
of service creation (per service element), and security/traceability.
The former need
is due to the pressing economic conditions, which are known to persist,
while the latter need expresses just common attributes of any service
infrastructure. Now let us ask ourselves: If MNO's cannot always make
their networks to run as we want the CCC to run, how the meta-operator
can achieve this? The answer is obvious: the CCC is feasible only if it
is self-managed (look at e.g. E3
white paper on self-managed radio access networs [PDF]).
Network management framework is FCAPS. Network
self-management, therefore is making 'self' each letter in FCAPS, and
by doing this not forgetting that A stands ont only for Accounting but
for Authentication, Authorisation and Auditing as well.
How can we make Self-FCAPS right? Again, what is the most
promising research direction? We would make a mistake if shall
not try to find common functions
in all aspects of Self-FCAPS; once invented, designed, assessed
and implemented such common functions could be re-used in many facets
of CCC safely.
It is postulated here that one such common function is self-awareness
function (SAF),
because it facilitates cognitive
networking in general and various cognitive
networking algorithms specifically. One particular direction
towards self-adaptive and cognitive network elements is proposed as this part of Euro-NF vision paper.
The concept of CCC and the evolutionary path to it fits nicely another
eMobility initiative - the mediation
bus, which can be seen as the next step in service orchestration
in multi-operator and multi-provider CCC environment following such
efforts as TMF's Shared Information/Data Model (SID), the core
element of NGOSS, and
Service Stratum of (previously IPSphere Forum), currently part of TMF.
About this
text
This text is
offered as the new start of the eMobility white paper on evolutionary
approaches to Future Internet; the previous version of this white paper
is available as the .DOC
file.
