The Autonomic Network Architecture (ANA)

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 4-14

  Bouabene, Ghazi ^a   Jelger, Christophe ^a   Tschudin, Christian ^a   Schmid, Stefan ^b   Keller, Ariane ^c   May, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autonomic networking; Clean slate network design; Future internet; Network architecture

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC COMMUNICATIONS; AUTONOMIC NETWORKING; AUTONOMICS; CHANGING ENVIRONMENT; CLEAN SLATE NETWORK DESIGN; COEXISTANCE; COMMUNICATION PRIMITIVES; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; DYNAMIC ASPECTS; EXECUTION ENVIRONMENTS; FUTURE INTERNET; GENERICITY; GUIDING PRINCIPLES; INTERNET TECHNOLOGY; NETWORK DESIGN; NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT; PARAMETRIZATIONS; RUNTIMES; SUPPORT NETWORKS;

ABSTRACTING; DESIGN; INTERNET; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; SLATE;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 77953254250     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2010.100102     Document Type: Article

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