Having investigated next generation management technologies and approaches to support autonomic management in deliverable D9.2, this deliverable builds on top of these technologies and provides specific examples of frameworks and approaches to support autonomic management in fixed networks and ubiquitous environments. These frameworks and approaches were developed in the context of WP9 in order to tackle the following four tasks that were identified as the ones of the greatest importance, interest and challenge in the context of WP9

•Task 1: Intra and inter-domain autonomic management of fixed networks.

•Task 2: Autonomic management of ubiquitous environments.

•Task 3: Policy based autonomic management.

The first task is of great importance since fixed networks carry the vast majority of Internet traffic and provide the backbone over which connectivity and higher level services are built upon. The ability to tackle complexity through autonomic management relieves network administrators and providers from the dubious task of continuous intervention to the management components of their networks. Since connectivity and higher level services need to span in most cases a chain of domains, autonomic management approaches for fixed networks should also take into account inter-domain relations and issues raised.

Ubiquitous networking has been receiving both academic and commercial interest in the recent years. With the proliferation of wireless networks and increasingly networked environments, different approaches have been adopted. Ubiquitous computing isproposed for home networks, while spontaneous approaches to networking focusing on users’ interaction and services are also investigated. Different enabling technologies have been considered as the basis for ubiquitous communication. Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) offer fast and cheap deployment without the need of existing infrastructure. At the same time, emerging Mesh technologies attempt to combine the benefits of MANETs with the support of wired access points. These networks require different autonomic management paradigms due to their inherent dynamicity and fluidity. This is the focus of Task 2.

Task 4 relates to peer-to-peer (P2P) approaches for autonomic network management. The distributed nature of the peer-to-peer concepts enhances autonomic network management approaches with the inherent scalability and self-organizing features of peer-to-peer approaches.

As mentioned above, inter-domain relations are of great importance and relevant issues have been identified and addressed in the context of EMANICS. Solutions for these issues have been proposed, both in relation to autonomic management but also in a more generic context. To this end, in this deliverable we will also present work performed in EMANICS to address inter-domain issues.