Autonomic Network Management for u-Zone Network

u-Zone Network is a hybrid of wireless mesh and Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs). Such networks help to realize ubiquity through spontaneous networking. The network management for these hybrid networks is different from conventional and infrastructure based network management. Heterogeneity, mobility, dynamic topologies, physical security, and survivability make the challenge hard. We present a 3-tier framework for autonomic network management for u-Zone network. This is an agent and policy-based, context-aware and self-managing framework. We provide hierarchical context awareness by collecting the context information through monitoring agents and generating cluster level and u-Zone Level context view. This context information is then used for self-management operations that include self-optimization, self-healing, selfconfiguration, and self-growing.