S-38.4030 Postgraduate Course on Networking Technology
(5-15 ECTS)
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Course Topic Spring 2006: Autonomic Communication and the
Knowledge Plane
Latest news:
- List of topics is available here.
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.