S-38.4030 Postgraduate Course on Networking Technology
(5-15 ECTS) P V

Course Topic Spring 2006: Autonomic Communication and the Knowledge Plane



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Introduction

The complexity of management has dramatically increased with the increased complexity, heterogeneity and dynamism of communication systems nowadays. It will be more and more difficult to administer the communication systems manually and therefore a much higher degree of management efficiency is demanded. Over the years, the technical community in this field agreed that tomorrow's communication systems need to be autonomous, managing their own evolution, performance, security and fault concerns without explicit user or administrator actions. The major characteristics of autonomic communication are self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization,self-protection.
 
The simple and "dumb" transparent data forwarding "plane"  that is fundamental to the Internet architecture is not sufficient again for the sophisticated communication systems. Dave Clark in MIT suggested a construction of a logical artifact, the Knowledge Plane (KP). The KP will collect the global information, instead of local information,about the operation of the network and provide operators as well as end users with timely reasoned assertions about network operation, faults and attacks. In the advanced stage, the KP will be allowed to exert direct control over nodes of the data plane. And even later KP will be able to suggest new requirements and mechanisms for the data plane itself.
 
The goal of this course is to introduce the students to the state of the art, research and new developments in the area of autonomic communication and the KP. Topics of interest cover Autonomic Communication architecture, conceptual model, system design, QoS, security, optimization etc.

The course can be included in post-graduate studies on Networking Technology (major or minor in S38). The credits can also be included in graduate studies on Networking Technology.

Course completion

The course will be arranged as a seminar. Seminar language will be English. Each participant will give a presentation on his/her subject from the material. Each student will report his/her subject in a seminar paper and will act as an opponent to one presentation. Please check also the course requirements.

Each participant will choose/suggest a subject from the list of topics according to his/her interests and consult the course assistant about his/her preference. The participant may also reserve/suggest his/her own presentation topic. Final assignment of topics will be organized on the first meeting of the seminar. Your comments and suggestions towards improving the seminar are also welcome.

If an adequate amount of high-standard papers emerge they will be published in the Networking Laboratory Series. This may require additional work on the paper!

Registration

Please register by sending an e-mail to the course assistant. Note that the number of participants is limited.

Schedule

The first introduction meeting will be held on 7.4.2005 (Friday) at 15.00 in SD302.
Seminar day for presentations will be on Friday 26.05.2006 and Monday 29.05.2006 in Micronova (Tietotie 3). Check the detailed schedule for more information.

Credits

The course will produce 5 ECTS (or 3 old) credits.



Here you can find some details about the course:
  Your suggestions on the organization of the course and findings on useful sources of information during March are most welcome. Meanwhile we will carry on planning the seminar and place more information on this site as it becomes available.