Autonomous Decentralized System for Service Assurance and Its Application

The market and users requirements have been rapidly changing and diversified. Under these heterogeneous and dynamic situations, not only the system structure itself, but also the accessible information services would be changed constantly. Therefor, the integration of wired and wireless devices, control and information systems to achieve real-time, high-performance and high-reliability for heterogeneous service provision and utilization is becoming more and more important. The Autonomous Decentralized System (ADS) has been proposed for resolving the on-line property to achieve the step-by-step expansion, maintenance and fault-propagation prevention for high-assurance. In this paper, the ADS architecture, autonomous community and application example in the IC card system are discussed.