Adaptive Networking Architecture for Service Emergence
Tomoko Itao, T. Suda, Takahiro Nakamura, Masato Matsuo · 2002
We propose a radically new paradigm of the Adaptive Networking Architecture for Service Emergence (ANA-SE). In the proposed architecture, services are implemented by a collection of multiple entities called cyber-entities. These cyber-entities have functionality related to their service and follow simple behavior rules (e.g., migration, reproduction, energy exchange, mutation, death) similar to biological entities. In the Adaptive Networking Architecture, useful emergent behaviors (e.g., scalability, adaptation, evolution, security, survivability, and simplicity) result when individual cyber-entities interact.