Title :
Toward Goal-Based Autonomic Networking
Author :
Berglund, Åsa ; Bjurling, Björn ; Dantas, Ramide ; Engberg, Susanne ; Giambiagi, Pablo ; Ohlman, Börje
Author_Institution :
Ericsson Res.
fDate :
Nov. 30 2008-Dec. 4 2008
Abstract :
The ability to quickly deploy and efficiently manage services is critical to the telecommunications industry. Currently, services are designed and managed by different teams with expertise over a wide range of concerns, from high-level business to low-level network aspects. Not only is this approach expensive in terms of time and resources, but it also has problems to scale up to new outsourcing and/or multi-vendor models, where subsystems and teams belong to different organizations. We endorse the idea, upheld among others in the autonomic computing community, that the network and system components involved in the provision of a service must be crafted to facilitate their management. Furthermore, they should help bridge the gap between network and business concerns. In this paper, we sketch an approach based on early work on the hierarchical organization of autonomic entities that possibly belong to different organizations. An autonomic entity governs over other autonomic entities by defining their goals. Thus, it is up to each autonomic entity to decide its line of actions in order to fulfill its goals, and the governing entity needs not know about the internals of its subordinates. We illustrate the approach with a simple but still rich example of a telecom service.
Keywords :
telecommunication network management; telecommunication services; goal-based autonomic networking; hierarchical organization; high-level business; low-level network; multivendor model; service management; telecom service; telecommunications industry; Bridges; Communication industry; Computer network management; Computer networks; Computer science; Content management; Outsourcing; Telecommunication network management; Telecommunication services; Time to market;
Conference_Titel :
GLOBECOM Workshops, 2008 IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3061-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3062-8
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOMW.2008.ECP.21