A survey of autonomic network architectures and evaluation criteria

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 464-490

  Movahedi, Zeinab ^a   Ayari, Mouna ^a,b   Langar, Rami ^a   Pujolle, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANOUBA   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Architecture Evaluation; Autonomic Architecture; Autonomic Computing; Network Management

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE EVALUATION; AUTONOMIC ARCHITECTURE; AUTONOMIC COMPUTING; AUTONOMIC NETWORK MANAGEMENT; EVALUATION CRITERIA; EVALUATION METRICS; HOLISTIC VIEW; MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT TASKS; NETWORK CONTROL; NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE;

NETWORK MANAGEMENT;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84860883548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2011.042711.00078     Document Type: Review

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