Autonomic Intelligence Evolved Cooperative Networking

Chapter 7Conclusion

The book was opened with a comprehensive depiction of the concept of autonomic computing from the perspective of a modern networked system design, where the notion of the human autonomic nervous system was elevated with emphasis on the key dimensions to self-management in the form of self-configuration, self-optimisation, self-healing, and self-protection, yet keeping in mind the context of agent systems. In order to prepare the ground for the target Autonomic Cooperative Networking Architectural Model, the Generic Autonomic Network Architecture was characterised through analysis of role of decision elements and hierarchical autonomic control loops, as well as their respective levels of abstraction, arranged in an incremental order. In this respect, the Vertical Technological Pillars and the Horizontal Architectural Extensions were introduced, given the perpendicularity of the layers of the Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model and the levels of the Generic Autonomic Network Architecture, as were the architectural constituents in the form of the Autonomic Cooperative Node, the Autonomic Cooperative Behaviour, and the Autonomic Cooperative Networking Protocol. The protocol level cooperative transmission decision element was presented, with its responsibility for cooperative relaying. Next, the function level cooperative re-routing decision element was deployed as a trigger for resiliency driven cooperative re-routing. Moving forward, the node level ...