The Inner Circle: How to exploit autonomic overlays of virtual resources for creating service ecosystems

International audienceAn approach based on overlay networking can lead to a novel P2P Service Platform (PSP) that Operators can fruitfully use to compete with Web Companies. The merits and the strengths of the approach are highlighted respect to the de-perimeterization of services. Critical points of overlay networking are tackled by the integration of technologies like autonomic, virtualization, cognition and negotiation frameworks. These enhancements make the PSP proposition reliable, effective and viable. The PSP is able to support the Inner Circle concept: i.e., the ability to integrate infrastructural and permanent resources with more temporary and dynamic associated nodes. Eventually some usage scenarios are discussed for showing how a PSP and the Inner Circle concept can support and nourish new ecosystems of services

Peer to peer adaptive networks to support Cloud Computing

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Verso le reti 0-Touch

http://www.telecomitalia.com/content/dam/telecomitalia/it/archivio/documenti/Innovazione/NotiziarioTecnico/2011/n1-2011/capitolo3_bassa.pdfInternational audienceLa penetrazione della banda larga e l'aumento delle capacità di calcolo e di memoria dei terminali stanno creando le condizioni per lo sviluppo di reti di crescente complessità e di soluzioni decentralizzate per l'offerta di contenuti e servizi. Quest'evoluzione richiede lo sviluppo di tecnologie e soluzioni che permettano alle reti future di auto-gestirsi e di auto-adattarsi alla forte dinamicità del contesto, continuando a garantire i livelli di qualità del servizio. La necessità per gli Operatori di dotarsi di soluzioni di auto-gestione si acuirà sempre più nel futuro e ben presto questi dovranno cimentarsi con una rete "0-Touch", ovvero dotata di un insieme di funzionalità intelligenti, parzialmente distribuite, che semplificano, per l'utente finale e per l'Operatore stesso, la gestibilità globale dell'ambiente dei suoi sistemi [1, 2]. In questo articolo si chiarisce come caratteristica l'approccio 0-Touch, grazie alla sua alta flessibilità, possa abilitare opportunità di sviluppo di nuovi modelli di business, in linea con i paradigmi degli ecosistemi apert

If the Web is the platform, then what is the SDP?

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Bio-inspired Autonomic Structures: a middleware for Telecommunications Ecosystems

Today, people are making use of several devices for communications, for accessing multi-media content services, for data/information retrieving, for processing, computing, etc.: examples are laptops, PDAs, mobile phones, digital cameras, mp3 players, smart cards and smart appliances. One of the most attracting service scenarios for future Telecommunications and Internet is the one where people will be able to browse any object in the environment they live: communications, sensing and processing of data and services will be highly pervasive. In this vision, people, machines, artifacts and the surrounding space will create a kind of computational environment and, at the same time, the interfaces to the network resources. A challenging technological issue will be interconnection and management of heterogeneous systems and a huge amount of small devices tied together in networks of networks. Moreover, future network and service infrastructures should be able to provide Users and Application Developers (at different levels, e.g., residential Users but also SMEs, LEs, ASPs/Web2.0 Service roviders, ISPs, Content Providers, etc.) with the most appropriate "environment" according to their context and specific needs. Operators must be ready to manage such level of complication enabling their latforms with technological advanced allowing network and services self-supervision and self-adaptation capabilities. Autonomic software solutions, enhanced with innovative bio-inspired mechanisms and algorithms, are promising areas of long term research to face such challenges. This chapter proposes a bio-inspired autonomic middleware capable of leveraging the assets of the underlying network infrastructure whilst, at the same time, supporting the development of future Telecommunications and Internet Ecosystems

Autonomics in the home

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