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The Autonomic Communications concept forms one promising solution to accommodate the increased complexity of legacy and emerging systems, fostering the automation and minimizing the need for human intervention. This notion implies the introduction of advanced mechanisms for autonomic decision making and self-configuration. The focus of this work is on the introduction of an advanced reconfiguration framework for the support of the following functionalities: i) efficient strategies of terminal attachment to heterogeneous wireless systems are proposed dependent on the evaluation of input stimuli from the surrounding telecom environment. ii) it is shown how to enable optimized selection and attribution of resources, iii) the application of new device configuration is examined, proposing a framework for dynamic protocol stack adaptation. It is indeed necessary to introduce a framework that will enable, policy based reconfiguration decisions supporting dynamic and optimal discovery, download and replacement of necessary protocol functionality. In this context, legacy management and control mechanisms should be enriched with such features operating in either terminal or network equipment. Namely, this contribution discusses cognitive reconfiguration management issues by introducing two basic reconfiguration units encapsulated in a unified management and control architecture: i) the component based protocol stack reconfiguration framework and ii) the resource usage optimization unit. Simulation and performance results presented in the paper prove the technical feasibility of the proposed mechanisms as well as the optimization of reconfiguration actions.
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Le concept de communications autonomes constitue une solution prometteuse qui permet la coexistence de systèmes dont la complexité ne cesse d’augmenter, en particulier les systèmes traditionnels et les systèmes émergents/de nouvelle génération. Ce concept, fondé sur l’auto-organisation et qui a pour avantage de diminuer la nécessité de toute intervention humaine, requiert la définition de mécanismes avancés pour la prise de décision distribuée et l’ auto-configuration. Nous présentons ici un système de reconfiguration avancé ayant les fonctionnalités suivantes: i) le système est muni de stratégies efficaces pour l’accès d’un terminal aux ressources de réseaux sans fil hétérogènes, ces stratégies étant fonction de certains paramètres de l’environnement, éventuellement évalués par mesure, ii) nous fournissons également des méthodes pour optimiser la sélection et l’ attribution de ces ressources, iii) enfin, nous nous intéressons à la configuration du terminal et proposons une adaptation dynamique de la pile de protocole. Dans ce cadre, il faudra également considérer des décisions de reconfiguration basées sur des règles qui permettront la découverte, le chargement et le remplacement éventuel de certaines fonctionnalités du protocole de façon dynamique et optimale. Dans ce contexte, les mécanismes de management et de contrle doivent inclure ces caractéristiques, soit au niveau du terminal, soit au niveau du réseau. Cette contribution traite des problèmes de gestion de la reconfiguration cognitive et introduit deux éléments de reconfiguration basiques réunis dans une architecture de management et contrle unifiée: i) le système de reconfiguration de la pile protocolaire à base de composants et ii) le système d’optimisation de l’usage des ressources. Les résultats de simulation illustrent la faisabilité technique des mécanismes proposés ainsi que l’optimisation de l’opération de reconfiguration.
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Patouni, E., Gault, S., Muck, M. et al. Advanced reconfiguration framework based on game theoretical techniques in autonomic communication systems. Ann. Telecommun. 62, 1099–1120 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03253308
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Key words
- Telecommunication network
- Autonomous systems
- Self organization
- Game theory
- Transmission protocol
- Mobile radiocommunication
- Distributed system
- Reserve allocation.