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Self-healing in the Scope of Software-Based Computer and Mobile Networks

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Self-healing is an autonomic computing fundamental well-disseminated in standalone computer systems. In distributed systems, e.g. computer networks or mobile networks, the introduction of self-healing capabilities poses some challenges, mainly when software-based networks, e.g. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV), are involved. Such networks impose new control and management layers, and the adoption of self-healing functions means that all layers must be considered. In this paper, we present the challenges of self-healing in the scope of SDN and NFV, by revising the self-healing concept in computer and mobile networks, and by presenting the thorough difference between a system that applies fault tolerance from one that applies self-healing functions. We also introduce a framework for solving these challenges, by describing four use cases of self-healing, considering control, management, and data layers. The use cases focus on maintaining the health of the network at run-time, considering control, management, and infrastructure layers. Our framework is a novel Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) tool, based on a self-management network architecture that was introduced in our previous works.

This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (Capes) - Finance Code 001.

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    Natal Vieira de Souza Neto, Daniel Ricardo Cunha Oliveira, Maurício Amaral Gonçalves, Flávio de Oliveira Silva & Pedro Frosi Rosa

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de Souza Neto, N.V., Oliveira, D.R.C., Gonçalves, M.A., de Oliveira Silva, F., Rosa, P.F. (2021). Self-healing in the Scope of Software-Based Computer and Mobile Networks. In: Ferguson, D., Pahl, C., Helfert, M. (eds) Cloud Computing and Services Science. CLOSER 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1399. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72369-9_14

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