Adaptation in an Active Services Network

Active services networks will give to users the flexibility to have access to custom services created by them or third party service providers. The Internet will become much more attractive but also services will turn out to be more versatile. The complexity of such a system is expected to be very high making traditional network management strategies unable to cope with the organization of the whole network. New adaptive techniques must be introduced in order to handle the rapid and many small changes in the network state. Genetic algorithms and biological inspired models seem to make the network adaptive to unpredictable changes. Some simulation results prove that those models are promising for the management of the future networks.