A hot topic in the early 70's, virtualization has grown again in importance over the past years.
In both research and industry sectors, important progress has been made developing new …

Today, mobile networks are facing an ever increasing number of users and more important
industrial applications that strongly employ the wireless and ubiquitously available …

One of the today issues in software engineering is to find new effective ways to deal
intelligently with the increasing complexity of distributed computing systems. In particular …

Networks cannot be managed without management plane communications among
geographically distributed network devices and control agents. Unfortunately, the …

This paper presents aframeworkfor self-optimizing next generation mobile networks, such as
3G LTE and WiMAX systems. Concept, architecture, interfaces and functions are described …

The vast proliferation in the continuously changing telecommunications environment of Next-
Generation-Networks (NGNs) poses strict requirements for the dynamic adaptation of mobile …

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 …

The vision of Autonomic Network Management seeks self-governance (eg self-organisation,
self-management) capabilities amongst network devices and system to minimise …

The challenge for autonomic network management is the provision of future network
management systems that have the characteristics of self-management, self-configuration …

The ever growing complexity of modern data centers for cloud computing-mainly due to the
increasing number of users and their augmenting requests for resourcesis pushing the need …