SFI Awards

Below is a list and brief description of SFI awards .

Autonomic Management of Communications Networks & Services
The Autonomic Management of Communications Networks & Services research programme addresses the current inability of service providers and communications operators to adapt, in a dynamic fashion, their offered services to the changing needs of their customers. It aims to develop a reference architectural framework for autonomic communications, which will facilitate the definition, creation, deployment and management of communications services in line with high‑level business goals, but without the requirement for significant human intervention. The framework will include a new methodology for managing the lifecycle of managed entities found in telecommunications systems, applying UML-based modelling of the static/dynamic characteristics and behaviour of the system. This behaviour will then be controlled using a holistic combination of policy management and process automation.

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