Autonomicity and Self-manageability Techniques in the Scope of the Future Internet’s Evolution

Upon the basis of the essential principles characterizing the development towards the establishment of the Future Internet (FI), the paper discusses innovative aspects for autonomicity and self-manageability, as the latter are introduced by the context of the Self-NET Project effort. We identify the “core” issues for a modern network management activity and related capabilities, incorporated in appropriate network elements/domains (and/or in clusters of them), by considering a novel feedback-control cycle, known as the MDE cognitive cycle. We discuss several major benefits originating from such an innovative approach. Self-NET develops self-management features that alleviate consequences of events for which the system would require various invocations of remedy actions and/or human intervention.