Using agents and autonomic computing to build next generation seamless mobility services
John Strassner · 2007
Next generation networks seek to integrate wide-area and local-area wireless and wired systems in order to provide seamless services to the end user, providing freedom of movement between metropolitan/enterprise and indoor/outdoor coverage while maintaining continuity of applications experience. Seamless Mobility, and its vision of seamless service delivery, requires significant changes to existing wired and wireless network management systems. Seamless Mobility is an experiential architecture, predicated on providing mechanisms that enable a user to accomplish his or her tasks without regard to technology. This talk will describe a novel autonomic architecture that uses a variety of different types of agents to synthesize knowledge about the environment, the context of users and their service and resource needs, and the capabilities and constraints placed on the network at any given time.