Management of Managed Self-Organizing Network in Network Virtualization Environment

Future network should flexibly deal with unexpected network changes and operational complexity caused by the diversification of the network services. In this paper, we present a managed self-organizing network concept. In the managed self-organizing network, multiple virtual networks are accommodated on a single physical network, and they are controlled autonomically based on self-organization. The sharing of limited physical resources will inevitably cause resource contention among virtual networks, which deteriorates performance and network stability. We thus propose a management architecture for controllable and manageable self-organizing networks. We also developed skeleton implementation to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed architecture.