Towards Autonomic Communication Mechanisms for Service Composability Management

The Autonomic Communication Forum dedicates itself to leverage innovative mechanisms in order to provide new levels of integrated autonomicity to a future self-managed networks and network elements. Current trends in networking technologies are applying Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles and concepts. Trying to improve the SOA capacities with the autonomic principles, the Autonomic Communications Forum (ACF) has created the Service Composability Management Working Group (SCM WG). This document outlines the fundamental objectives of the ACF SCM WG explaining potential benefits for the telecommunication industry, they are extending the spectrum of research. As Next Generation Networks seem to be the next telecommunication network and services architecture, the main section explains where SCM principles will be utilized in order to enhance NGN service composition mechanisms as well as NGN composite service management mechanisms.