Design and Evaluation of Techniques for Resilience and Survivability of the Routing Node

2. Setting The Context: Autonomics And The Efipsans Approach

The idea of Autonomic Computing and Networking has drawn significant attention within the past decade. The initial efforts were constituted by white papers such as (IBM White Paper,2006) and (M. Smirnov,2004), as well as architectures to enable autonomic behaviours like FOCALE (J. Strassner, N. Agoulmine, & E. Lehtihet,2006) . Thereby, autonomics was always understood as a control loop by which an autonomic entity (e.g. Autonomic Manager in the IBM model for autonomics (IBM White Paper,2006)) monitors a set of resources, analyses the acquired information, plans a strategy to resolve challenging conditions, if any, and executes the corresponding actions on the underlying resources.