Situation awareness mechanisms for cognitive networks

The paper provides a study of situation awareness mechanisms in modern telecommunication networks on the essential basis of the actual Self-NET research Project effort. Since cognition has today become one of the key features of most systems, novel mechanisms for identification, comprehension and corresponding reaction to altering environmental conditions are continuously being developed. The necessity of situation awareness techniques as well as potential ways for their realization is pointed out, in the broader context of the Future Internet.