Autonomic control and personalization of a wireless access network

As ICT services are becoming more ubiquitous and mobile and access technologies grow to be more heterogeneous and complex, we are witnessing the increasing importance of two related needs: i) users need to be able to configure and personalize their services with minimal effort; ii) operators desire to engineer and manage their networks easily and efficiently, limiting human agency as far as possible. We propose a possible solution to reach these goals. Our vision, developed in the so-called Simplicity project, is based on a personalization device, which, together with a brokerage framework, offers transparent service configuration and runtime adaptation, according to user preferences and computing/networking context conditions. The capabilities of this framework can be exploited: i) on the user side, to personalize services, to improve the portability of services over heterogeneous terminals and devices, to adapt services to available networking and terminal technologies; ii) on the n...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: CN
• Authors: Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, Dario Di Sorte, Mauro Femminella, Gianluca Reali
• Keywords: CN 2007, So-called Simplicity Project, Solution, User Preferences