The Power of Autonomic characteristics in Opportunistic Networks
Silvia Giordano, Ha Hong Nguyen, Alessandro Puiatti · 2007
Autonomic characteristics can dramatically improve the efficiency of opportunistic communications. The main contribution of autonomic communications to opportunistic architectures is to simplify, automate, protect and enhance the knowledge. This allows empowering and making more effective the information handling and exchanges in the face of a complex, dynamic, uncertain, and unsecured environment. In this paper we identify the key elements that enable autonomic behavior of nodes in opportunistic networks. We then show how this can be implemented, and how beneficial it is.