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SELFNET Framework self‐healing capabilities for 5G mobile networks
Author(s) -
Santos José Pedro,
Alheiro Rui,
Andrade Luís,
Valdivieso Caraguay Ángel Leonardo,
Barona López Lorena Isabel,
Sotelo Monge Marco Antonio,
Garcia Villalba Luís Javier,
Jiang Wei,
Schotten Hans,
AlcarazCalero Jose M.,
Wang Qi,
Barros Maria João
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
transactions on emerging telecommunications technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.366
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 2161-3915
DOI - 10.1002/ett.3049
Subject(s) - computer science , cloud computing , reliability (semiconductor) , network management , virtualization , process (computing) , quality of service , software defined networking , security management , distributed computing , computer security , computer network , operating system , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics
Nowadays, mobile networks are complex sets of heterogeneous equipments that use proprietary management applications, resulting in a huge expenditure, a large effort and a time‐consuming process to manage all network elements by means of currently manual or semi‐automatical approaches. With the emergency of new technologies, such software‐defined networking, network function virtualization, and cloud computing, the current configurable networks are capable of becoming programmable, which will facilitate advanced autonomous network management. This article presents capabilities of a novel framework proposed by the SELFNET project that enables highly autonomic management functionalities. It focuses on the proposed self‐healing use case that can be applied to reactively or preventively deal with the detected or predicted network failures. The SELFNET can provide the upcoming 5G system: an autonomic management framework, which brings a remarkable reduction upon operational expenditure and a substantial improvement of quality‐of‐experience(QoE) in terms of reliability, availability, service continuity and security. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.