Invited Talk: Principles and Initial Experiences of Autonomic Communications

Xiaoyuan Gu
Technical University of Braunschweig

Abstract:

The Internet is being challenged by prevalent middle-box communications and multi-way interactions that undermines its original design principles. The world-wide wireless buildout demands a level of optimum that is hard to achieve with a strictly-layered protocol stack. Ever-increasing complexity in the construction, configuration and management of heterogeneous networks further complicates this picture. All of this has posted a fundamental question: is layering still an adequate foundation for future Internet architecture? A new communication paradigm dubbed Autonomic Communication is introduced, for which context-awareness and distributed policy-based management play a key role. An overview of network architecture research is given, both from the layered camp and from its counterpart. This is followed by the vision on network architecture for Autonomic Communication, and the details on the architectural considerations with the POEM model and its protocol stack design.

The presentation slides can be found here.

Short biography of the invited speaker:

Xiaoyuan Gu is a research staff member and Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks in the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. He received his M.Sc. with honors from the International University in Germany in Information and Communication Technology in 1999. During September 2001 and September 2003, he was with the Panasonic Multimedia Communication European Lab as a research engineer. His research interests include autonomic communications, network architecture, cross-layer design, and networked entertainments. Xiaoyuan is a member of the Autonomic Communication Forum (ACF), and student member of IEEE Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc) and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). He chairs the IEEE Interest Group on Autonomic Communications (ACIG) and has served on the TPCs of many international conferences such as IEEE ISM'05, IEEE CCNC'06, IEEE ICTTA'06, IEEE ICC'06 etc.

References:

1. Braden, R., Faber, T., Handley, M., "From Protocol Stack to Protocol Heap - Role-Based Architecture". In Proc. of HotNets-I, Princeton, NJ, October 2002.
2. X. Gu, X. Fu, H. Tschofenig and L. Wolf: Towards Self-Optimizing Protocol Stack for Autonomic Communications: Initial Experience, in I. Stavrakakis and M. Smirnov (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd IFIP International Workshop on Autonomic Communication (WAC'05), Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 3854 (LNCS), Athens, Greece, pp.186-201, Oktober 2005

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