SDN enablers in the ETSI AFI GANA Reference Model for Autonomic Management & Control (emerging standard), and Virtualization impact

ArchSDN: a reinforcement learning-based autonomous OpenFlow controller with distributed management properties

“…SDN needs to have an agile control, capable of quickly reacting to network critical events and adapting to network clients' needs, and the autonomous management concept has the necessary self-management properties to address the challenges. In fact, the GANA architecture reference model [44] already proposes the merge of self-* attributes with OpenFlow enabled networks.…”

Supporting Unified Distributed Management and Autonomic Decisions: Design, Implementation and Deployment

“…The work proposed in [24,25] describes an implementation guide for an emerging standard for autonomic management and control of networks and services, namely the ETSI AFI GANA Reference Model for Autonomic Networking, Cognitive Networking and Self-Management. Network control in emerging SDN frameworks is based on a ''centralized control paradigm'' that leaves the fundamental end-to-end transport network elements with too little intelligence to self-manage, so as to address problems that rather require the network elements to collaborate in a distributed fashion via distributed control algorithms (e.g.…”

Industry harmonization for Unified Standards on Autonomic Management & Control (AMC) of Networks and Services, SDN and NFV

“…In a nutshell, network "state" includes monitoring data exposed by the network itself as well as configuration-data pushed by management or control-software into the network to effect (re-)configuration or (re-)programmability of network behavior. The value the ETSI AFI GANA Reference Model brings to SDN in its broader picture via the SDN Enablers defined in the Model can be summarized as follows (refer to [6] for more details): [15]. The project also demonstrated how Autonomic Functions (AFs), such as Decision-making Elements (DEs) designed following GANA principles, could be used to autonomically manage IPv6 protocols, mechanisms and parameters in IPv6-enabled networks.…”

“…input flow from NFV MANO to the GANA Network Governance Interface. In Management & Control fusion, the ETSI / AFI "GANA Knowledge Plane" would also need to autonomically manage and control the Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) coming from the ETSI / ISG NFV Paradigm, while autonomically managing the legacy physical nodes/devices as well[6].VIII. IPV6 IN THE PICTURE WITH AMC, SDN AND NFV: A PERSPECTIVE FROM IPV6 FORUM The European Commission funded the FP7 EFIPSANS project [13] to examine how IPv6 features could be exploited/extended for the purposes of designing/building Autonomic Networks and Services.…”