An architecture for context-driven self-management of services

Next generation networks are becoming service-aware. This implies that context coming from various sources can be used for supporting service management operations and also for network resource optimization. As a consequence, the complexity for managing context information grows with abundance of services and diverse service requirements placing new requirements on information control and management as well as on services and network resources usage. We aspire to find a solution for providing a functional concept for context information gathering in different provider domains on behalf of future autonomic communications. The use of ontologies for support and management of services will facilitate the transition from service agnostic management architectures to service and network resource-awareness by proposing the functional components following autonomic principles.