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标题：Engineering Future Network Governance
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作者：Ranganai Chaparadza ; Martin Vigoureux ; José- Antonio Lozano-López 等
期刊名称：UPGRADE: The European Journal for the Informatics Professional
印刷版ISSN：1684-5285
出版年度：2010
卷号：XI
期号：03
出版社：Council of European Professional Informatics Societies
摘要：Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) are transforming the world with computing, storage and communications resources being ubiquitous commodities. At the same time, the operation and management of this infrastructure is becoming more and more complex, requiring an increasing amount of resources and effort that currently exceed the cost of their own infrastructure. This trend is pushing operation and management to be the main challenge for the ICT industry. From the network operation point of view, the drastic change is that it is not possible to have an easy end-to-end view on how services are delivered and the pace of changes in services, topology, etc. Current Operational and Support Systems (OSS´s) used to manage the infrastructures are designed for different requirements and are not able to provide effective help for such dynamic and uncertain environments. Autonomic Computing and Communications promise to develop a self-management infrastructure and seem to offer a solution to make operational processes simpler. The EU funded EFIPSANS (Exposing the Features in IP version Six protocols that can be exploited/extended for the purposes of designing/building Autonomic Networks and Services) project aims to develop a generic architecture for designing and building self-managing networks, with focus on IPv6 and evolving IPv6. This paper provides an overview of the main concepts backing autonomics and how they are being applied by EFIPSANS to build a self-managing infrastructure, able dynamically and automatically to adapt to business and operational changes - thereby moving towards the "zero touch operation" concept