Automated Planning for Open Architectures

Abstract

Abstract – End-to-end connections experience a high level of diversity in network characteristics. At one extreme, an application may receive highly degraded service, leaving the application unusable. At another extreme, the costs to guarantee some level of service may be undesirably high to the user or overall system. Open architecture networks help applications push adaptation technology into the network and reduce the effects of poor network characteristics. Automated planning is important for the services that are supported by the open architecture. The remedies that modify an application’s data stream to adjust it to unfavorable network conditions should be located and ordered to provide good data transfer and network resources use. The search for good plans is a hard AI problem and requires additional research. Index Terms—adaptation, active networks, planning. I.