With virtualization and 5G, automation becomes more crucial to ensuring even basic operability. And automation itself changes in fundamental ways to enable wireless networks to eventually self-monitor, self-configure, self-optimize, and self-heal, with engineers overseeing and monitoring the process but not driving it. This paper discusses the transition from static automation to new, the new autonomic networks that 5G networks will require.
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Senza Fili: From Automated to Autonomic Networks
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