The diverse stakeholder roles to involve in standardization of emerging and future self-managing networks

Abstract

This paper discusses some of the key points related to Standardization that need to be noted and discussed in the wide ICT community, to help understand the implication and impact of emerging and future network technologies on the various stakeholders of the global ICT ecosystems. The implication of emerging and future network technologies is that it is now the time to involve every key stakeholder in shaping, reviewing and contributing to the evolution of standards as well as the processes involved in making standards. The success to attaining quality and stability of emerging and future standards hinges on the engagements of the various key stakeholders and roles discussed in this paper. This paper is aimed at helping various stakeholders identify where they fit in the changing landscape of standardization, and promoting further discussions and debates along the topic, since the necessary discussions are not taking place at the pace expected by the global ICT communit y. We look at the key aspects requiring continued discussions and consideration so as to help accelerate standards development processes and adoption of standards, to help facilitate innovation and new technologies that dramatically bring about changes to the global economy and improve the lives of citizens across the globe. Therefore, it is very important to understand that Future Network Research directions must be aligned with newly launched activities in standardization of emerging and future network technologies

Enabling autonomicity in wireless mesh networks with the ETSI AFI GANA reference model

“…1 Research communities are now encouraged to adopt GANA as a standardized reference model and instantiate it in various reference architectures in their continuing research work in the field of autonomic networking, cognitive networking, and self-management. 3 The goal is to produce research results that can be used in accelerating the deployment of the autonomics technology while providing feedback to the responsible standardization groups. This is our motivation in this paper, in which we provide guidelines for the process of instantiating the AFI GANA reference model onto an IEEE 802.11-compliant wireless mesh network architecture.…”