Automated refinement of sustainability-oriented policies for a sustainable network management

Sustainable networks management represents a significant opportunity for reducing energy consumption among Information and Communication Technologies. Policy Based Network Management (PBNM) is one of the key approaches to bring sustainability to networks. However, despite its poten-tial, PBNM is not yet widely commercially used. The widespread use depends on an automated policies refinement process in order to translate high-level policies into machine-readable policies able to put the business strategies into practice. This work aims at proposing an automated sustainability-oriented policies refinement method, as well as an architecture and a prototype to a sustainable network management.