Testing End-to-End Self-Management in a Wireless Future Internet Environment

Several network management frameworks have been specified during the last two decades by various standardization bodies and fora, like IETF, 3GPP, DMTF, ITU, all trying to specify interfaces, protocols and information models by taking into consideration the respective network infrastructure i.e., telecom world, internet and cellular communications. The current challenge for the network management systems is the reduction of human intervention in the fundamental management functions and the development of the mechanisms that will render the Future Internet network capable to autonomously configure, optimize, heal and protect itself, handling in parallel the emerging complexity. In the autonomic network vision, each network device (e.g., router, access point), is potentially considered as an autonomic element, which is capable of monitoring its network-related state and modifying it based on policy rules that the network administrators have specified.