A clean slate 4D approach to network control and management
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Towards Autonomic and Situation-Aware Communication Services: the CASCADAS Vision
DIS '06 Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications
Autonomic network management: some pragmatic considerations
Proceedings of the 2006 SIGCOMM workshop on Internet network management
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
CONMan: a step towards network manageability
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
A Framework for In-Network Management in Heterogeneous Future Communication Networks
MACE '08 Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE international workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
EMERGING '09 Proceedings of the 2009 First International Conference on Emerging Network Intelligence
OSPF for Implementing Self-adaptive Routing in Autonomic Networks: A Case Study
MACE '09 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments
IWSOS '09 Proceedings of the 4th IFIP TC 6 International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems
Do next generation networks need path diversity?
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
CTRQ '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Third International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service
Energy savings in wireless access networks through optimized network management
ISWPC'10 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE international conference on Wireless pervasive computing
Self Organized Network Management Functions for Energy Efficient Cellular Urban Infrastructures
Mobile Networks and Applications
The E3 architecture: enabling future cellular networks with cognitive and self-x capabilities
International Journal of Network Management
Autonomic and Decentralized Management of Wireless Access Networks
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
Towards autonomic management of communications networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
NESTOR: an architecture for network self-management and organization
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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A key challenge for the management systems of future networks is the reduction of human interventions in the fundamental management functions. These include mechanisms that render the networks capable to configure, optimize, heal and protect itself, but also handle the emerging complexity. Demands for the future internet networks mandate the rapid assessment of the feasibility of such cognitive management architectures that shall bridge the gap between conceptual design and practical network deployments. In this paper, a novel architecture is introduced, based on organized distribution of control feedback cycles at locations allocated across network's operational elements. Two realisations of self-management in the operations of wired and wireless access network segments are presented. The first one is focused on organization of the wireless access regions in networks by the use of compartments of access points for enabling coverage optimization. A compartment-based approach facilitates the more efficient usage of network resources, exploiting local situation awareness and local optimisation features, according to the varying traffic needs. The second realization shows the control of mobility management processes in wired parts of access networks for balancing utilization of network resources. A dynamic deployment and re-configuration of mobility agents permit to tackle the problem of congestion induced by mobility agents in mobile protocols and combined with a dynamic access router assignment, network resources are efficiently balanced within the network. The paper concludes with findings and recommendations on how common principles of self-management evolve from design theory to practice.