Willie Donnelly

Beyond the Knowledge Plane: An Inference Plane to Support the Next Generation Internet

The Knowledge Plane was defined as a global, decentralized network overlay which used cognitive information processing to build a self-managing network. This paper builds on that work to address a number of its shortcomings, including a means to express business goals to drive the set of network services and resources provided, the ability to work with and control heterogeneous products and technologies, and the integration of wired and wireless networks using autonomic principles.

Creating a distributed mobile networking testbed environment-through the Living Labs approach

Today, new ways of constructing and delivering complex wireless and mobile services require more elaborate and distributed prototyping, testing, and validation facilities. Testbeds are becoming an important tool for integrating technology components into the complex environment of the wireless world and end-users in their daily life. However technology in itself is no longer valid-benefits and usefulness for people in their daily life must be proven before the technology or service can be said to be a success. Living Labs is a user-centred real-life approach to wireless and mobility service and technology design and development (as well as other service areas). The user-centred approach places special emphasis on the need to develop mobile services that are usable, i.e. effective, efficient and satisfying to use, and has full end user integration in the creation and validation processes, which is necessary for gauging market acceptance of the developed prototypes and solutions

A Model Based Approach for Policy Tool Generation and Policy Analysis

We outline an approach to policy specification and analysis in which an information model is used as the starting point for semi-automated generation of an integrated suite of languages, tools and an ontology. The suite includes separate domain-specific languages for the specification of systems structure and policies respectively, editors and checkers for these languages, and a baseline ontology that can be augmented with semantic information to support policy analyses processes. We describe a prototypical realisation of the approach, showing how the languages, tools and ontology are used to support policy transformation and conflict detection processes.

The Design of a New Context-Aware Policy Model for Autonomic Networking

This paper describes a new version of the DEN-ng context model, and how this model in conjunction with the DEN-ng policy model can be used for more effective and flexible context management. Both are part of the FOCALE autonomic network architecture. Context selects policies, which select roles that can be used, which in turn define allowed functionality for that particular context.

Modelling Context for Autonomic Networking

This paper describes a new version of the DEN-ng context model, and how this model in conjunction with the DEN-ng policy model can be used for more effective and flexible context management for autonomic networking. Both are part of the FOCALE autonomic network architecture. Context selects policies, which select roles that can be used, which in turn define allowed functionality for that particular context. A brief description of applications of this model for the FP7 Autonomic Internet project are described.

Frequent Closed Informative Itemset Mining

In recent years, cluster analysis and association analysis have attracted a lot of attention for large data analysis such as biomedical data analysis. This paper proposes a novel algorithm of frequent closed itemset mining. The algorithm addresses two challenges of data mining: mining large and high dimensional data and interpreting the results of data mining. Frequent itemset mining is the key task of association analysis. The algorithm is based on concept lattice structure so that frequent closed itemsets can be generated to reduce the complicity of mining all frequent itemsets and each frequent closed itemset has more information to facilitate interpretation of mining results. From this feature, the paper also discusses the extension of the algorithm for cluster analysis. The experimental results show the efficiency of this algorithm.

Bio-inspired Policy Based Management (bioPBM) for Autonomic Bio-inspired Policy Based Management (bioPBM) for Autonomic

The tremendous development of Internet infrastructures as well as communication technologies has led to an increase in network management complexity. Autonomic control is one way to manage complexity. Policy based management systems (PBMS) provide a consistent model for decision making using a set of abstractions (i.e., to manage the system in a manner that is independent from the complexities of low level network technologies). In this paper, we develop a hierarchical bio-inspired PBMS based on mechanisms for organism regulation that supports self-organisation and self-management at different levels of the hierarchy. We employ this mechanism towards network management of autonomic communications systems

Technology Neutral Principles and Concepts for Autonomic Networking

The 2006 MACE workshop [1, 28] has presented the drivers and challenges of Autonomic Networking [2] and fostered an understanding of emerging principles for this new type of networks [3]. In this paper, we present concepts and principles that define a technological neutral, architectural perspective of Autonomic Networks. The work presented in largely based on work within the Architecture team of the TeleManagement Forum (Technological Neutral Architecture, [4]) and joined research work of industrial and academic research teams (for example Ericsson [5], HP & QinetiQ [6] and Motorola [7]). The goal of this paper is to provide the reader with manageability guidelines and architectural patterns leading to the development of manageable autonomic software and communication systems. We present a component-based, distributed system architecture and an associated set of critical system services that Autonomic Networks require. Since we tackle the problem from a technologically neutral angle, this paper will not prescribe a single new technology, but rather provide a means that allows for federating different technologies, each of which offers particular advantages at business and system levels. In particular, it enables business concepts and principles to drive system design and architectures. This may be further implemented using currently available distributed systems information technologies.

Review and designs of federated management in future internet architectures

The Future Internet as a design conception is network and serviceaware addressing social and economic trends in a service oriented way. In the Future Internet, applications transcend disciplinary and technology boundaries following interoperable reference model(s). In this paper we discuss issues about federated management targeting information sharing capabilities for heterogeneous infrastructure. In Future Internet architectures, service and network requirements act as design inputs particularly on information interoperability and cross-domain information sharing. An inter-operable, extensible, reusable and manageable new Internet reference model is critical for Future Internet realisation and deployment. The reference model must rely on the fact that highlevel applications make use of diverse infrastructure representations and not use of resources directly. So when resources are not being required to support or deploy services they can be used in other tasks or services. As implementation challenge for controlling and harmonising these entire resource management requirements, the federation paradigm emerges as a tentative approach and potentially optimal solution. We address challenges for a future Internet Architecture perspective using federation. We also provide, in a form of realistic implementations, research results and solutions addressing rationale for federation, all this activities are developed under the umbrella of federated management activity in the Future Internet.

Pervasive Computing Support in the Transition towards Personalised Health Systems

This paper discusses pervasive computing work in the transition from traditional health care programs to personalised health systems pHealth. A chronological guided transition survey is discussed to highlight trends in medicine describing their most recent developments about health care systems. Future trends in this interdisciplinary techno-medical area are described as research goals. Particularly, research and technological efforts concerning ICTs and pervasive computing in healthcare and medical applications are presented to identify systems requirements supporting secure and reliable networks and services. The main objectives are to summarise both the pHealth systems requirements providing end-user applications and the necessary pervasive computing support to interconnect device-based health care applications and distributed information data systems in secure and reliable forms, highlighting the role pervasive computing plays in this process. A generic personalised healthcare scheme is introduced to provide guidance in the transition and can be used for multiple medical and health applications. An example is briefly introduced by using the generic scheme proposed.