Situated & autonomic communications 2004

European Commission Directorate-General For The Information Society And Media

Description

New paradigms for distributed and self-organising communication and networking systems able to adapt to a changing context
Information policy

Sujets

• Information society (disambiguation)
• Information technology
• Call for bids
• Economie gestion

Informations

• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-THE-INFORMATION-SOCIETY-AND-MEDIA
• Nombre de lectures: 36
• Langue: English

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Funded by DG Information Society, European Commission

FET Proactive Initiative 2004

Situated & Autonomic Communications - 2004

New paradigms for distributed and self-organising communication and networking systems able to adapt to a changing context

The increasingly higher density mesh of components of communications systems and the resulting growing complexity of their control requires more and more distributed and self-organising structures, relying on simple and dependable elements able to collaborate to produce sophisticated behaviours.

The vision is that of a world pervaded by ubiquitous communication facilities, offering their services to the users and capable of self-organising and self-preserving their functionalities without any direct human intervention. This entails fundamental advances both in the architecture and functionality of the network, and in the characterisation and understanding of the common communication medium.

The objective of this initiative is to promote research in the area of new paradigms for communication/networking systems that can be characterised as situated (i.e. reacting locally on environment and context changes), autonomously controlled, self-organising, radically distributed, technology independent and scale-free. Consequently, communication/networking should become task- and knowledge- driven and fully scalable.

The main objectives that the expected Integrated Projects should address are:

✓To define a self-organising communication network concept and technology that can be situated in multiple and dynamic contexts, ranging from sensor networks to virtual networks of humans. This concept will require the definition of decentralised optimisation strategies and might

benefit from cross-layer or non-layered approaches.

✓To study how strategic needs of social or commercial nature impact on future communication paradigms, and how networks and applications can support society and economy, enabling a service oriented, requirement and trust driven development of communication networks.

Key requirements to be ensured by future communications paradigms are: ✓security and trustworthiness of this distributed communication system by embedding security and trust rules in network functionality;

✓overall stability and resilience of the network as it evolves;

✓positive interactions which the new communication paradigms will have on human and social aspects, in relation to ambient intelligence and more in general to future sensorized societies.