Project Overview
ICT AUTOI is a 2 year project that is creating a communication resource overlay with autonomic characteristics for the purposes of fast and guaranteed service delivery. Given this objective, AutoI is designing and developing, based on a well-defined methodologies, an open software infrastructure and tools that enables the composition of better (fast and guaranteed) services in an efficient manner and the execution of these services in an adaptive (Autonomic form) way. To this end, we introduce Virtualisation of network resources and Policy-Based Management technique to describe and control the internal logic of the services, utilising Ontology-based information and data models to facilitate the Internet service deployment in terms of programmable networks facilities supporting the next generation of internet (NGN).
This resource overlay would support the following features:
1. Continuing service delivery in a dynamically changing resource environment and context (Resource context)
2. Resource support for changes in service requirements or introduction of new services (service context)
3. Seamless service mobility across multi-domain (technology, operator) (inter-/intra- domain) resource environments
4. Mechanism for unification and separation of the virtual resources at the management level
5. Exhibit self-* functions in terms of supporting autonomic communications.
6. Ensuring secure, fast and guaranteed services delivery
This resource overlay would support the following features:
1.Continuing service delivery in a dynamically changing resource environment and context (Resource context)
2.Resource support for changes in service requirements or introduction of new services (service context)
3.Seamless service mobility across multi-domain (technology, operator) (inter-/intra- domain) resource environments
4.Mechanism for unification and separation of the virtual resources at the management level
5.Exhibit self-* functions in terms of supporting autonomic communications.
6.Ensuring secure, fast and guaranteed services delivery.
Project Implementation
In the ICT AutoI project we are leaders of WP3 “Information Modelling” were we are using information and data modelling to capture knowledge relating to resource capabilities, service requirements, environmental constraints and business goals/policies. The gathered knowledge from these models are being combined with a different type of knowledge – information from a set of ontologies; this produces an augmented set of data structures that, together with reasoning and learning techniques, can be used to reason about this knowledge. With this research we are defining a means for establishing a knowledge base and behavioural definition for the purposes of service-oriented resource orchestration.
AutoI suggests a transition from a service agnostic Internet to service-aware network, managing resources by applying Autonomic principles. TSSG are Workpackage leaders of WP3. In terms of technology R&D the areas of most relevance to TSSG within AUTOI are:
1. Information modelling
2. Information model for services, virtual resources and associated context
3. Data models
4. Ontologies
Project Achievements
Publications
In the context of ICT AutoI project TSSG researchers produced the following 6 papers:
• Steven Davy, Claire Fahy, Zohra Boudjemil, Leigh Griffin, John Strassner, A Model Based Approach to Autonomic Management of Virtual Networks accepted to (final version in preparation) IM 2009 Application Session.
• Bassi, A., Denazis, S., Galis, A., Fahy, C., Serrano, M., Serrat, J.
Autonomic Internet: A Perspective for Future Internet Services Based on Autonomic Principles, - invited and accepted paper for IEEE 3rd International Week on Management of Networks and Services End-to-End Virtualization of Networks and Services (Manweek 2007) / MACE 2007 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments 29 October – 2 November, San José, California, USA
• Alex Galis, Bertrand Mathieu, Kerry Jean, Roel Ocampo, Lefteris Mamatas, Javier R. Loyola, Joan Serrat, Andreas Berl, Hermann de Meer, Steven Davy, Zeinab Movahedi, Lawrence Cheng, Laurent Lefevre Self-organising Management Overlays for Future Internet Services, MACE 2008, 4th International Week on Management of Networks and Services - Manweek 2008 22-26 September, Samos Island, Greece
• Steven Davy, Claire Fahy, Leigh Griffin, Zohra Boudjemil, Andreas Berl, Andreas Fischer, Hermann de Meer, John Strassner Towards a Policy-based Autonomic Virtual Network to support Differentiated Security Services; - Paper at TEMU 2008, International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia, 16-18 July, Crete.
• Claire Fahy, Steven Davy, Zohra Boudjemil, Sven van der Meer,Javier Rubio Loyola , Joan Serrat, John Strassner, Andreas Berl, Hermann de Meer, Daniel Macedo Towards an Information Model supporting Service-aware Self-Managing Virtual Resources - MACE 2008 at the 4th International Week on Management of Networks and Services - Manweek 2008 22-26 September, Samos Island, Greece
• A. Galis, S. Denazis, A. Bassi, P. Giacomin, A. Berl, A. Fischer, H. de Meer, J. Srassner, S. Davy, D. Macedo, G. Pujolle, J. R. Loyola, J Serrat, L. Lefevre, A. Cheniour- Management Architecture and Systems for Future Internet Networks - submitted on 30th October 2008 to FIA book (to be published by IOSPress http://www.iospress.nl 7th May 2009) & FIA conference Prague
AUTOI is funded by the FP7 Programme.
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Project Manager David Muldowney
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