Autonomic Orchestration of Future Networks to Realize Prosumer Services

The current Internet, though successful, suffers from a set of underlying architectural and business problems that threaten its ability to meet the needs of the future. This article discusses those problems, and then presents a novel approach designed to meet business needs while advocating the concept of the prosumer. This approach provides a mapping between business needs and network services, and enables changing context to determine which network services and resources are provided at any given moment.