Grant: Strategic Projects - Group

Important technological advances will be made in communications and networks. The focus will be on mobile and wireless connectivity, known as third generation (3G and coming 4G) mobile telecommunications systems, and to a certain extent on ad hoc networks. As a result we will be surrounded by ever growing multi-domain (technical and administrative) heterogeneous communications in both wired and wireless networks. This environment deals with communication in "multi-zoned networks", where people, devices, appliances and servers are connected to each other via different kinds of networks. Networks will be pervasive, ubiquitous, multi-service, multi-operator and multi-access. They will bring together several different types of networks, such as body area networks (BAN), vehicular area networks (VAN), personal area networks (PAN), home area networks (HAN), wireless hotspot networks, and cellular networks among many others. This project aims at developing an autonomic service specific overlay network architecture, models, and algorithms for enabling seamless service delivery across dynamic fixed and mobile networks. This can be achieved by developing a framework for supporting adaptive service delivery that optimizes utilization of network resources in self-managed adaptive service overlay infrastructure. The farmework will help to facilitate rapid, flexible deployment and provision of services to service providers. It will enable compostable dynamic service assurance across administrative domains, and offers autonomic service specific overlays that negotiate user service and service provider requirements in order to optimize the end-user experience.