Abstract
System management addresses the provision of functions required for controlling, planning, allocating, monitoring, and deploying the resources of a network and of its services in order to optimize its efficiency and productivity and to safeguard its operation. It is also an enabler for the creation and sustenance of new business models and value chains, reflecting the different roles the service providers and users of a network can assume. Ambient Network represents a new networking approach and it aims to enable the cooperation of heterogeneous networks, on demand and transparently, to the potential users, without the need for pre-configuration or offline negotiation between network operators. To achieve these goals, ambient network management systems have to become dynamic, adaptive, autonomic and responsive to the network and its ambience. This paper discusses relationships between the concepts of autonomous and self-manageability and those of ambient networking, and the challenges and benefits that arise from their employment.
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Brunner, M. et al. (2004). Ambient Networks Management Challenges and Approaches. In: Karmouch, A., Korba, L., Madeira, E.R.M. (eds) Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications. MATA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3284. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30178-3_19
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