Autonomic mobility and resource management over an integrated wireless environment — A GANA oriented architecture

Abstract

This paper presents the key designing principles and attributes of a novel autonomic architecture for enabling efficient mobility and QoS-aware resource management over an integrated IPv6-enabled heterogeneous wireless environment (CDMA cellular/WLAN). The proposed architecture is founded on Generic Autonomic Network Architecture (GANA), a generic framework for realizing autonomic networks introduced in EFIPSANS EC FP7 project. Emphasis is placed on describing the autonomic components of the architecture, illustrating their interactions and justifying their designing properties towards creating a concrete autonomic paradigm that aims at fulfilling 3GPP/LTE self-optimization vision.