Self-organizing network architecture for scalable, adaptive, and robust networking

A new generation network is requested to accommodate a enormous amount of nodes with high diversity and a wide variety of traffic and applications. To achieve higher scalability, adaptability, and robustness than ever before, we propose new network architecture in this paper. The architecture consists of the physical network layer, service overlay network layer, and common network layer mediating them. Nodes and organized networks behave in a self-organizing manner where they operate on local information and interact with each other to provide network services to users and applications. We also allow inter-layer interaction through the common network layer for a network system to be self-organized as a whole and effectively and efficiently react to unexpected failure.