Dissemination Workshop
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Scientific Objectives: The state of the art in Autonomic Networking shows that there are no standardized specifications or what we may call a “catalogue” of desirable autonomic behaviours in diverse networking environments such as in End Systems, Access networks, Core networks, and wireless environments versus fixed network environments accessible to the public. That does not mean there have not been significant achievements in this regard. Indeed, a lot of research work in this field shows significant achievements regarding implementing autonomic systems, services or even applications [Strassner06]. One of the main scientific objectives of EFIPSANS is to carry out a study of the emerging research areas that target desirable user behaviours, terminal behaviours, service mobility, e-mobility, context-aware communications, self-ware, autonomic communication/computing/networking etc, and out of these areas specify desirable autonomic(self-*) behaviours in diverse environments. Once these desirable autonomic behaviours are specified [Autonomic Behaviours Specifications (ABs)], the required IPv6 features and network architectures that enable the implementation of those specified autonomic behaviours, need to be specified [Requirements Specifications(RQs)]. Moreover finding the appropriate IPv6 protocol or architectural extensions that enable the implementation of the captured desirable autonomic behaviours, surely poses a number of scientific challenges. The desirable autonomic behaviours in specific environments may be scrutinized on the basis of issues such as security concerns, performance, reliability, the reciprocal dependencies between network functions, etc. |
The EFIPSANS project aims at exposing the features in IP version six protocols that can be exploited or extended for the purposes of designing or building autonomic networks and services. What this means is, a study of the emerging research areas that target desirable user behaviours, terminal behaviours, service mobility, e-mobility, context-aware communications, self-ware, autonomic communication/computing/networking will be carried out, and out of these areas desirable autonomic(self-*) behaviours in diverse environments e.g. end systems, access networks, wireless versus fixed network environments will be captured and specified. Appropriate IPv6 protocol or architectural extensions that enable the implementation of the captured desirable autonomic behaviours will be sought and specified. A selected set of the specified autonomic behaviours will be implemented and demonstrated. Also, technical reports on the concrete IPv6 feature combination scenarios including any new extensions used to implement the selected set of autonomic behaviours will be presented. The vision is that, the specified autonomic behaviour specifications, the identified exploitable IPv6 features and new protocol and architectural extensions will one day be standardized in the long run (after the first 3 years of EFIPSANS) i.e. maturing from being drafts to standards.
