Project AUTHONE

Finished Project

AUTHONE

Autonomic Home Networking

Project Coordinator	Project Consortium
Hubert Zimmermann Ginkgo-Networks France e-mail: Hubert.zimmermann@ginkgo-networks.com	Ginkgo Networks, FR	Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, DE
	France Telecom, FR	Tübingen University, DE
	Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, FR	Sony-Ericsson, SE
	Siemens, DE	Lunds Universitet, SE
	Hirschmann Automation & Control, DE

This is a “Celtic” project;

Project Key Information
Start date	End date	Budget (total)	Effort (total)	Project-ID
Q4/2006	Q2/2009	4.1 MEuro	41.5 PY	CP3-001

Abstract

The world is going towards autonomic equipment. The Authone project aims at developing the autonomic paradigm in home networks with the goal of creating a competitive technological edge for European players in the domain of home networking.
The main objective of Authone is to design a very innovative home network communication architecture with autonomous components allowing self-managing properties necessary for future home and pervasive scenarios. This new architecture will be composed of 4 planes (data, control, management and knowledge planes) allowing the system to self-configure, self-secure and self-monitor in real time so that the home-network is always optimised depending on the knowledge plane information. The project will develop this key concept of knowledge plane for driving home-networks in an autonomic way.Three main technical objectives will be addressed:

the development of an agent technology (intelligent, active, policy-oriented, multi-agent…) for realising autonomic components,
the study of mechanisms, protocols and architecture for distributed, self-organizing communication,
the investigation of new autonomic technologies, functionalities and control schemes for a home-network environment.

The Authone project shall deliver:

Concepts, algorithms and environments for the development of autonomic communication systems;
Methods for optimising the management of autonomous home–networks, encompassing control, monitoring, measurement, automation;
New agents for intelligent and dynamic control of home-network platforms;
Design of an autonomic control platform that supports scalability, openness, distributed monitoring, adaptativity, security and local control.

The consortium partners represent a large amount of expertise (telecom operators, manufactures, research laboratories, universities and service providers) needed to tackle the project objectives.

Focus areas

Design of a innovative home network (HN) communication architecture with autonomous components allowing self management.
The new architecture will be composed of 4 planes, data , control, management and knowledge.

Expected outcome

Based on the knowledge plane information, the HN will be optimized through its capacity to self-configure, to self-secure and to self-monitor.
Methods for optimizing autonomous HN.
New agent for intelligent and dynamic control of HN platforms.
Design of an autonomic control platform that supports scalability, openness, distributed monitoring, security and local control.