Managing an autonomic future internet

Abstract

Information and telecommunications technologies are migrating toward the future Internet (FI) era. Key characteristics envisaged are powerful network infrastructures, numerous applications and services as the Internet has become one of the most integral parts of our lives, and the evolution of existing and emergence of new business models. The infrastructure will be highly pervasive, consisting of people, smart objects, machines and the surrounding space, and embedded devices (e.g., sensors, RFID tags), which will result in a highly decentralized environment of resources, interconnected by dynamic Networks of Networks. These characteristics make it clear that management in the FI era will have additional complexity to support, which derives from the need to handle multiple demanding and changing situations for the desired provisioning of quality of experience/service (QoE/QoS), the exploitation of the infrastructure to maximize efficiency therein, and the support of diverse interactions, objectives, and policies designated by the various aspects of business models.