Emerging, Self-Management Functionality for Introducing Cognition in the Wireless, B3G World
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Enhancing Channel Estimation in Cognitive Radio Systems by means of Bayesian Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Trends in the development of communication networks: Cognitive networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Management System for Terminals in the Wireless B3G World
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Architecture and behavioral model for future cognitive heterogeneous networks
WiCOM'09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Wireless communications, networking and mobile computing
Telematics and Informatics
Journal of Network and Systems Management
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
Context Matching for Realizing Cognitive Wireless Network Segments
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Advances in ubiquitous media technologies and applications
World Wide Web
Self-Configuration and Optimization for Cognitive Networked Devices
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Utility-Aware Cognitive Network Selections in Wireless Infrastructures
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
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B3G wireless access infrastructures can be realized through the concept of cognitive networks. In a B3G context, a network operator will rely on various alternate wireless access technologies, for realizing the appropriate business goals, such as capacity and QoS levels. Cognitive wireless access networks dynamically change their configuration, and in this respect the radio access technologies and spectrum used at the physical and MAC layers, in order to adapt to environment conditions. A cognitive infrastructure consists of reconfigurable elements and intelligent management functionality. This article focuses on the management part. We present a platform, called m@ANGEL, which adheres to autonomic computing principles, and aims at the provision of seamless cognitive connectivity to the mobile Internet. Our work starts from a business level view of cognitive wireless access networks. Technical requirements for m@ANGEL are identified, and the architecture of the platform is described. Moreover, the article describes the functionality and engineering challenges of the m@ANGEL components, which provide the means for monitoring, discovery, context acquisition, description of profiles/goals/agreements, resource and service brokerage, configuration negotiation, selection, and implementation. Finally, concluding remarks are drawn, and issues for the next phases of our work are identified