Senza Fili: From Automated to Autonomic Networks
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.