ACCA Objectives:
The ACCA will
coordinate and integrate within
harmonised R&D programme targeting new proactive
initiative within FET major studies in the area of
self-organisation (self-management, self-healing, self-awareness,
etc.) in application to a network
element's autonomic behaviour
exposed by innovative
(cross-layer optimised,
context-aware, and securely
programmable) protocol stack in its interaction
with numerous often-dynamic network communities. Autonomic
communication studies the indivudual network element as it is
affected by and affects other elements
and the often numerous groups to which
it belongs as well as network
in general. AutoComm's goals are to understand how
desired element's behaviours are learned, influenced
or changed, and how, in turn,
these affect other elements, groups and network.
Autonomic communication is centred
around
networking selfware - a novel
approach to perform network control,
management, middle box communication, service
creation, etc. based on universal and fine-grained
multiplexing of numerous policies, rules
and events that is done autonomously but
facilitates desired behaviour of groups of network
elementsThe goal of the R&D programme will be to identify
sound approaches to develop autonomic communication spanning any
transport, network and link technology and assisting true
ambient intelligence. The ACCA plans to accumulate
relevant knowledge in various forms
and from various sources and to
disseminate it to both industry and
research communities in a form of
requirements analysis, white
papers on architectural principles, problem statements,
roadmaps, impact reports, and comparative evaluations.
The ACCA
will evaluate a critical mass of relevant known and emerging
paradigms and will build an autonomic communication R&D
community prepared to undertake practical
steps in realising the R&D programme.
Recognising that ACCA aims to solve the problem of communication
infrastructure evolvability through
self-organisation and that this
research requires a broad
interdisciplinary approach the Action will
explore concurrently multiple paradigm spaces addressing
the problem from the viewpoints of software
and hardware developments, radio technology
advances, design methodology, control theory, formal
methods, distributed systems research, etc.
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