Autonomic management for convergent networks to support robustness of appliance technologies

Autonomic management within autonomic computing framework is considered as the future and viable solution for many appliances, either in software or hardware. Nevertheless, its current research application in computer networks is mainly visible in the intra domain space, and less attention is given to inter domain between one core network and another. This paper reviews some of the work on autonomic management and presents a framework that can be extended to a global and universal solution, such as fulfilling demand on bandwidth management, Quality of Service (QOS), and Service Level Agreements (SLA). The autonomic computing self- features are considered to show the viability of the proposed framework.