Toward autonomic digital home management

Digital Home Services Management is becoming one of the main challenges for telecommunications operators as the heterogeneity and complexity of end users devices grows dramatically. Moreover, home network topology and composition can be changed by end users without any control from the service provider side. In addition to these complexity problems, the number of customers that a traditional telco operator manages adds a scalability problem to the equation. Traditional centralized management paradigms lacks from the flexibility and dynamicity needed to deal with these highly personalized scenarios. The adaptability and evolvability of Autonomic Systems is envisioned as the key technology in order to overcome this difficult situation. This talk explains how Telefonica I+D is trying to apply Autonomic Communications principles to manage Digital Home Environments.