Abstract
Autonomic communication aims to build more reflective systems
with properties like self-healing, self-organisation, self-optimisation and so
forth – the so-called “self-*” properties. To attain this within the existing
strictly-layered approaches to network software may be possible to certain extent, but will not leverage all the possible optimisations, and we suggest that
cross-layer architectures are better-suited to achieving the self-* properties.
This paper explores the possibilities of cross-layering approaches in autonomic
networks, reviews and compares the different cross-layer approaches to network architecture, observing that most current approaches depend purely on
local information and provide only poor and inaccurate information gathering
at the network level.
with properties like self-healing, self-organisation, self-optimisation and so
forth – the so-called “self-*” properties. To attain this within the existing
strictly-layered approaches to network software may be possible to certain extent, but will not leverage all the possible optimisations, and we suggest that
cross-layer architectures are better-suited to achieving the self-* properties.
This paper explores the possibilities of cross-layering approaches in autonomic
networks, reviews and compares the different cross-layer approaches to network architecture, observing that most current approaches depend purely on
local information and provide only poor and inaccurate information gathering
at the network level.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Advanced Autonomic Networking and Communication. Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing. |
Editors | M Calisti, S van der Meer , J Strassner |
Publisher | Birkhauser Verlag Basel |
Pages | 127-148 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783764385699 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783764385682 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2007 |