Computer networks are infrastructures largely used by our society supporting a broad range
of applications. In effect, computer networks are diverse in terms of their scale, complexity …

Autonomic network management is an innovative vision promising new horizons of efficient
networking systems free from human control. This promise has, thus far, ushered in …

Academic and industrial research initiatives have sought to make fully autonomic networks a
reality. Some of these initiatives pursued a holistic approach, while others focused on setting …

Autonomic network management is a promising approach to reduce the cost and the
complexity of managing network infrastructures. It attempts to lead the human administrator …

There is no accepted definition of what an Autonomic Network is, nor is there a definition of
what Autonomic Management is. Although there are numerous discussion papers and …

Autonomic networking aims to solve the mounting problems created by increasingly
complex networks, by enabling devices and service-providers to decide, preferably without …

As communications networks become increasingly dynamic, heterogeneous, less reliable,
and larger in scale, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to effectively manage these …

Summary form only given. The increasing complexity of computing systems is beginning to
overwhelm the capabilities of software developers and system administrators to design …

Over the past decade the research community has been actively investigating how network
management systems can be developed to achieve the flexibility and adaptability required …

The evolution of mobile network technologies and their vertical integration, heterogeneity of
applications, and the advent of sophisticated end-user devices have continuously been …