Autonomic Communication

1. Front Matter

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2. Network Management

   1. An Infrastructure-Based Approach to Support Dynamic Networks with Mobile Agents

      • Arndt Döhler, Christian Erfurth, Wilhelm Rossak

      Pages 1-12

   2. Some Requirements for Autonomic Routing in Self-organizing Networks

      • Franck Legendre, Marcelo Dias de Amorim, Serge Fdida

      Pages 13-24

   3. Policy Interoperability and Network Autonomics

      • Shane Magrath, Robin Braun, Fernando Cuervo

      Pages 25-43

3. Models and Protocols

   1. Spatial Computing: An Emerging Paradigm for Autonomic Computing and Communication

      • Franco Zambonelli, Marco Mamei

      Pages 44-57

   2. Self-deployment, Self-configuration:Critical Future Paradigms for Wireless Access Networks

      • Francis J. Mullany, Lester T. W. Ho, Louis G. Samuel, Holger Claussen

      Pages 58-68

   3. Content Distribution Through Autonomic Content and Storage Management

      • Nikolaos Laoutaris, Antonios Panagakis, Ioannis Stavrakakis

      Pages 69-78

4. Network Composition

   1. A Unified Framework for the Negotiation and Deployment of Network Services

      • Spyros Denazis, Lidia Yamamoto

      Pages 79-93

   2. TurfNet: An Architecture for Dynamically Composable Networks

      • Stefan Schmid, Lars Eggert, Marcus Brunner, Jürgen Quittek

      Pages 94-114

   3. A Systems Architecture for Sensor Networks Based On Hardware/Software Co-design

      • Andy Nisbet, Simon Dobson

      Pages 115-126

5. Negotiation and Deployment

   1. Challenges in Communications Research Beyond the VICOM Project

      • F. Vatalaro, G. Cortese, F. Davide, A. Detti, M. Leo, P. Loreti et al.

      Pages 127-138

   2. A Framework for Self-organized Network Composition

      • Cornelia Kappler, Paulo Mendes, Christian Prehofer, Petteri Pöyhönen, Di Zhou

      Pages 139-151

   3. Semantic-Based Policy Engineering for Autonomic Systems

      • David Lewis, Kevin Feeney, Kevin Carey, Thanassis Tiropanis, Simon Courtenage

      Pages 152-164

6. Immunity and Resilience

   1. Dynamic Self-management of Autonomic Systems: The Reputation, Quality and Credibility (RQC) Scheme

      • Anurag Garg, Roberto Battiti, Gianni Costanzi

      Pages 165-178

   2. E Pluribus Unum

      • Hristo Koshutanski, Fabio Massacci

      Pages 179-190

   3. A Metabolic Approach to Protocol Resilience

      • Christian Tschudin, Lidia Yamamoto

      Pages 191-206

7. Meaning, Context and Situated Behaviour

   1. Putting Meaning into the Network: Some Semantic Issues for the Design of Autonomic Communications Systems

      • Simon Dobson

      Pages 207-216

   2. Dynamic and Contextualised Behavioural Knowledge in Autonomic Communications

      • Roy Sterritt, Maurice Mulvenna, Agnieszka Lawrynowicz

      Pages 217-228

   3. Towards Adaptable Ad Hoc Networks: The Routing Experience

      • Cesar A. Santivanez, Ioannis Stavrakakis

      Pages 229-244

8. Invited Programme

   1. BIONETS: BIO-inspired NExt generaTion networkS

      • Iacopo Carreras, Imrich Chlamtac, Hagen Woesner, Csaba Kiraly

      Pages 245-252

The ?rst IFIP Workshop on Autonomic Communication (WAC 2004) was held 18–19 October 2004 in Berlin, Germany. The workshop was organized by Fra- hofer FOKUS with the help of partners of the EU-funded Autonomic Com- nication Coordination Action — IST-6475 (ACCA), and under technical sp- sorship of IFIP WG6. 6 — Management of Networks and Distributed Systems. The purpose of this workshop was to discuss Autonomic Communication—a new communication paradigm to assist the design of the next-generation n- works. WAC 2004 was explicitly focused on the principles that help to achieve purposeful behavior on top of self-organization (self-management, self-healing, self-awareness, etc. ). The workshop intended to derive these common principles from submissions that study network element’s autonomic behavior exposed by innovative (cross-layer optimized, context-aware, and securely programmable) protocol stack (or its middleware emulations) in its interaction with numerous, often dynamic network groups and communities. The goals were to understand how autonomic behaviors are learned, in?uenced or changed, and how, in turn, these a?ect other elements, groups and the network. The highly interactive and exploratory nature of WAC 2004 de?ned its format — six main sessions grouped in three blocks, each block followed by a panel with all speakers of the previous block as panellists and session chairs as panel moderators. The?rstpanelaimedtohighlightthemainprinciplesguidingresearchinal- rithms,protocolsandmiddleware;thesecondpanelinvestigatedgrandchallenges of network and service composition; the third panel had to answer the question “HowDoestheAutonomicNetworkInteractwiththeKnowledgePlane?”. Panel reports were compiled by panel moderators and conclude this volume.

• QoS
• architecture
• autonomic behavior
• autonomic communication
• communication calculi
• configuration
• dynamic network communities
• middleware
• mobile code communication services
• network management
• network protocols
• network self-organization
• routing
• sensor network

• Fraunhofer Institut FOKUS, Berlin, Germany

  Michael Smirnov

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