The SELFNET project will design and implement an autonomic network management framework to achieve self-organizing capabilities in managing network infrastructures by automatically detecting and mitigating a range of common network problems that are currently still being manually addressed by network operators, thereby significantly reducing operational costs and improving user experience. SELFNET explores a smart integration of state-of-the-art technologies in Software-Defined Networks (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Self-Organizing Networks (SON), Cloud computing, Artificial intelligence, Quality of Experience (QoE) and Nextgeneration networking to provide a novel intelligent network management framework that is capable of assisting network operators in key management tasks: automated network monitoring by the automatic deployment of NFV applications to facilitate system-wide awareness of Health of Network metrics to have more direct and precise knowledge about the real status of the network; autonomic network maintenance by defining high-level tactical measures and enabling autonomic corrective and preventive actions against existing or potential network problems. SELFNET is driven by use cases designed to address major network management problems including: SELF-PROTECTION (Capabilities against distributed cyber-attacks), SELF-Healing (Capabilities against network failures) and SELF-OPTIMIZATION (Capabilities to dynamically improve the performance of the network and the QoE of the users.)
SELFNET is a project promoted by the European Commission under Horizon2020. Composed by a Consortium of 12 companies, an investment estimated at 7 million euros and an expected period of 36 months, is SELFNET one of the 19 projects of the 5G PPP public-private partnership, aiming to rethink and create an infrastructure for the future telecommunications network, the 5G.
Partners
- Eurescom - European Institute For Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (DE) [Koordinator]
- University of the West of Scotland (UK) [Technical Manager]
- Universidad de Murcia (ES)
- PT Inovacao e Sistemas, S.A. (PT)
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ES)
- Nextworks (IT)
- InnoRoute GmbH (DE)
- Alvarion Technologies Ltd. (IL)
- Ubiwhere, Lda. (PT)
- Proef Sgps, SA. (PT)
- Creative Systems Engineering (C.S.E) Monoprosopi epe (EL)
