By allowing devices and service providers to choose what to do at any given time, ideally without human intervention, autonomous networking seeks to address the growing issues brought about by increasingly complex networks. The ultimate goal is to create self-managing networks that can interface with one another and adjust their behavior to always give the end user the best possible experience. This book provides an understanding of autonomous network management concepts, methodologies, and architectures, along with an evaluation of them and lessons gained from current field initiatives. Leading academic institutions, Orange Labs, Motorola, Ericsson, and the ANA EU Project are among the industry groups that have contributed to it. Each of these groups offers a chapter that looks at the international research projects that they are involved in, like the EU Autonomic Network Architecture Project and the Ambient Networks EU Project. These chapters review recent advancements and show how new architectures, models, protocols, and mechanisms for network equipment in the future are defined using autonomic management principles.
