@Article{Tcholtchev2014a,
  author    = {Nikolay Tcholtchev and Ina Kathrin Schieferdecker},
  title     = {Framework for distributed autonomic self-healing in fixed {IP}v6 networks},
  doi       = {10.1002/dac.2601},
  pages     = {4103--4125},
  volume    = {27, no. 12},
  abstract  = {A main requirement for the Future Internet is to enable self-management behaviors facilitating the network to adapt to changing conditions and self-heal in the face of erroneous states. On the basis of Autonomic Fault-Management principles, this paper proposes a framework consisting of a set of components operating inside the network elements and allowing the devices to collaboratively realize self-healing. In that context, Autonomic Fault-Management is intuitively constituted by the detection of the presence of faulty conditions, followed in turn by the self-diagnosis and identification of the corresponding root causes, and completed consequently by the removal of the identified root causes and their effects. The proposed framework implements a distributed control loop that interacts with the network operations personnel in case the current erroneous state is not resolvable by means of Autonomic Fault-Management. We argue that there are a number of mutual benefits between our proposed framework and the IPv6 protocol suite. This is demonstrated by a case study that illustrates these benefits and shows how the capabilities of IPv6 can be enhanced through the self-healing mechanisms of the proposed framework. Finally, the prototype implementation used for the case study is analyzed in terms of scalability and overhead produced in the network nodes.},
  file      = {:2014/Tcholtchev2014a - Framework for Distributed Autonomic Self Healing in Fixed IPv6 Networks.pdf:PDF},
  journal   = {Int. J. Communication Systems},
  keywords  = {self-healing;framework;autonomic fault-management;distributed control loop;Fault-Isolation;Fault-Removal;Fault-Localization},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  type      = {article},
  year      = {2014}
}