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This paper presents an overview of the policy-based reconfiguration management and enforcement for autonomic communication system platform (Pre-meacs). In contrast to existing management approaches, which require static priori policy configurations, policies are created dynamically. The proposed Pre-meacs framework creates new policies at runtime in response to the changing requirements. A hierarchical policy model is used to refine users and administrators’ high-level goals into low-level objectives. The new approach ensures the success of the reconfiguration through monitoring feedback. The main components of Pre-meacs framework for policy creation, storage, evaluation and enforcement are presented, and the procedures of Pre-meacs in networks reconfiguration management are also demonstrated. Illustrative example demonstrates the performance of the proposed framework.
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Chen, J., Zhao, Z., Qu, D. et al. A Policy-based Approach for Reconfiguration Management and Enforcement in Autonomic Communication Systems. Wireless Pers Commun 45, 145–161 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-007-9405-x
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