Self-optimized Cognitive Network of Networks

Antonio Manzalini (1) , Peter H. Deussen (2) , S. Nechifor (3) , Marco Mamei (4) , Roberto Minerva (1, 5, 6) , Corrado Moiso (1) , A. Salden (7) , T. Wauters (8) , Franco Zambonelli (9)

1 ST.FC - Future Centre
2 Fraunhofer FOKUS - Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems
3 Program and System Engineering
4 Dipartimento di Ingegneria
5 SAMOVAR - Services répartis, Architectures, MOdélisation, Validation, Administration des Réseaux
6 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
7 Almenda
8 INTEC - Department of Information Technology
9 Dipartimento di Ingegneria

Future processing, storage and communication services will be highly pervasive: people, smart objects, machines and the surrounding space (all embedding devices such as with sensors, RFID tags etc.) will define a highly decentralized cyber environment of resources interconnected by dynamic networks of networks. As communications will extend to cover any combination of 'people, machines and things', future networks will be increasingly complex and heterogeneous, yet always endorsed with the challenging task of ensuring end-to-end QoS. This paper proposes the groundwork for an advanced cognitive networking paradigm exploitable in future wired and wireless infrastructures: a decentralized cognitive plane to allow for cross-layer, cross-node and cross-network domain self-management, self-control and self-optimization, while being compatible with legacy management and control systems.

Mots clés: cognitive networking; self-management; autonomic; cross-layer; knowledge; network of networks

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Antonio Manzalini, Peter H. Deussen, S. Nechifor, Marco Mamei, Roberto Minerva, et al.. Self-optimized Cognitive Network of Networks. The Computer Journal, 2011, 54 (2), pp.189-196. ⟨10.1093/comjnl/bxq032⟩. ⟨hal-00630542⟩