Managing control information in autonomic wireless networking

As mobile Internet access traffic continues to grow at an explosive rate and wireless networks continue to diverge into multiple access technologies with partly overlapping sets of features, new solutions for efficient use of these networks are vital. Cognitive network management provides tools to tackle this challenge by automatically learning from past experience the characteristics and usage patterns of the connected devices, thus enabling autonomic optimization of those connections. Cognitive network management requires a vast amount of information in order to function effectively, making collaboration of the networked devices essential as the best sources of information are scattered throughout the network. This makes efficient information dissemination one of the key enablers for autonomic networking. This dissertation studies managing control information related to autonomic selection of access networks and adapting services in a heterogeneous wireless network environment. It presents a solution to simple and efficient information dissemination in the form of Distributed Decision Engine— a CEP-like system enabling the building of a highly scalable and dynamic messaging system enabling dissemination, analysis and control of the complex series of interrelated events in the network. The dissertation also presents results showing a clear benefit in using cross-layer and cross-domain information in a modern wireless environment and validates the final prototype implementation of DDE with laboratory measurements. Effective use of disseminated cross-layer information is another key element in autonomic wireless networking. This dissertation also focuses on intelligent decision-making based on crosslayer information by presenting test results which attest that the performance of an autonomic wireless networking system can be improved by using cognitive techniques in its management algorithms, and that hierarchy and coordination can be utilized to minimize the effect of conflicting decisions of the system.

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