Autonomic Intelligence Evolved Cooperative Networking

Chapter 2Autonomically Driven Cooperative Design

2.1 Introduction

This opening chapter begins with an analysis of the rationale behind the introduction and the role of the visionary concept of autonomic computing for the needs of accounting for its rapid translation into and convergence with the domain of state-of-the-art networked systems. Although it is of an introductory or context-setting nature, this part of the book provides an extensive commentary on and insight into the entire design to allow a comprehensive view of the current status of and future advancements in the realm of autonomics. For this reason, not only are the major aspects of the original approach detailed, but the relevant conceptual and architectural changes are indicated to allow for the introduction of the concept of Autonomic Intelligence Evolved Cooperative Networking. In particular, once the general vision has been introduced, the main emphasis shifts towards an explanation of the workings of the classic approach, advocating the adoption of the mechanisms governing the human autonomic nervous system into the architecture responsible for the management of complex networked systems. As such, it involves discussion of the aspects of self-configuration, self-optimisation, self-healing, and self-protection, together constituting the notion of self-management, while the pertinent architectural assumptions and variations follow, developing into a discussion regarding the complementary nature of autonomics ...