Autonomic Management Architecture - FOCALE

Foundation, Observation, Comparision, Action and Learning Environment

• Accommodate Legacy Components
• Provide a means to orchestrate Behaviour of Autonomic Components
• Ensure that all Autonomic Components adjust their Functionality in Unison, according to Policy
• Provide a Means to Reason about the Environment and recommend or take appropriate Actions, so that the underlying Business Goals are not violated and, hopefully, optimised

Basic Autonomic Network Control Loop

Autonomic Manager gathers Vendor-specific data from Managed Resource, analyses date to ensure that the Managed Resource provides appropriate Services and Resources, maintains the Loop and takes Actions to Reconfigure and Re-analyse if necessary
Model-based Translation Layer mediates between the Autonomic Manager and legacy Managed Resources and harmonises the different Languages and Programming Models of today's and tomorrow's heterogeneous Networks

Managing Autonomic Components

Externalise Control Function enables independet Control over the constituent Elements of the Control Loop, thus we move the Autonomic Manager outside the control loop.
Policy Manager translates business requirements into a form that can be used to configure network resources.

Orchestrating Behaviour

Fuse Information Models, Ontologies and Machine Learning and Reasoning Algorithms to enable Semantic Interoperability between Different Models.