Jack-in-the-Net: Adaptive Networking Architec- ture for Service Emergence

Summary In this paper, we propose a radically new paradigm of the adaptive networking architecture for service emergence: Jack-in-the-Net (Ja-Net). In Ja-Net, services are implemented by a collection of multiple entities called cyber-entities. These cyber-entities have functionality related to their service and follow simple behavior rules (e.g., migration, reproduction, energy exchange, mutation, death) similar to biological entities. In Ja-Net, useful emergent services and behaviors (e.g., scalability, adaptation, evolution, security, survivability, and sim