Report of the 2nd Workshop on Autonomic Communications and Network Management (ACNM 2008)

Abstract

The 2nd IEEE Workshop on Autonomic Communications and Network Management (ACNM 2008, http://www.nw.neclab.eu/acnm08) was held in Salvador-Brazil, April 11, 2008 in conjunction with the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations & Management Symposium (NOMS 2008). It followed the success of the previous meeting, ACNM 2007 (http://www.nw.neclab.eu/acnm07), held in Munich together with the IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2007). The purpose of ACNM 2008 was to present and to discuss new theories, mechanisms, and applications of Autonomic Communication—a new paradigm for forthcoming networks—in the fixed as well as the mobile worlds. The focus of ACNM is on intelligent communication, network control and management paradigms based on smart network and service elements that are capable of automatically configuring and organizing themselves. Autonomic networks will be able to sense their environment to perceive changes, to understand the meaning of these changes, and to react in an intelligent manner