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The AutoI approach for the orchestration of autonomic networks

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Existing services require assurable end-to-end quality of service, security and reliability constraints. Therefore, the networks involved in the transport of the data must cooperate to satisfy those constraints. In a next generation Internet, each of those networks may be managed by different entities. Furthermore, their policies and service level agreements (SLAs) will differ, as well as the autonomic management systems controlling them. In this context, we in the Autonomic Internet (AutoI) consortium propose the Orchestration Plane (OP), which promotes the interaction among different Autonomic Management Systems (AMSs). The OP mediates the communication and negotiation among AMSs, ensuring that their SLAs and policies meet the requirements needed for the provisioning of the services. It also simplifies the federation of domains and the distribution of new services in virtualised network environments.

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  1. Each AMS is responsible for only one service, in order to simplify the operation of the AMSs. This allows the AMSs to focus on the autonomic management of the services, while the OP deals with the issues arising from the interaction of services.

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This article has been realised in the context of the Autonomic Internet (AutoI) EU research project. AutoI is an FR7 partially financed EU project for the period 2008–2009. It is backed by a consortium led by Hitachi Europe and composed by partners from Waterford Institute of Technology (Ireland), University College London (UK), Polytechnic University of Catalunia (Spain), INRIA (France), University of Passau (Germany), University Paris VI (France), UCOPIA (France), University of Patras (Greece), Gingko Networks (France).

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  1. Laboratoire d’Informatique Paris VI-Paris Universitas, 104 Avenue du Président Kennedy, 75016, Paris, France

    Daniel Fernandes Macedo, Zeinab Movahedi & Guy Pujolle

  2. CINVESTAV Tamaulipas, Victoria, Mexico

    Javier Rubio-Loyola

  3. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Antonio Astorga

  4. University of Patras, Patras, Greece

    Giannis Koumoutsos

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Macedo, D.F., Movahedi, Z., Rubio-Loyola, J. et al. The AutoI approach for the orchestration of autonomic networks. Ann. Telecommun. 66, 243–255 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-010-0187-x

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