Future autonomic cooperative networks

Abstract

Both cooperative transmission and autonomic networking have emerged recently as very promising technologies ready to become the key components of the concept referred to as the Future Internet. Cooperative transmission has been one of the hottest research topics lately capitalizing on the exploitation of relay nodes, while autonomic networking is promoting a very desirable vision that networked systems should be able to act as a living organisms and self-configure without any external intervention. This paper promotes the idea of joint approach to both technologies so the end users are benefited in terms of the quality of services they are provisioned. © 2011 ICST Institute for Computer Science, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.