Cloud-based autonomic service monitoring for Future Internet

The shortcomings of today´s Internet and the high demand for complex and sophisticated applications and services drive a very interesting and novel research area called Future Internet. The area of Future Internet research focuses on developing a new network with similar magnitude as today´s Internet but with more demanding and complex design goals and specifications. It strives to solve the issues identified in today´s Internet, by capitalizing on the advantages of emerging new technologies in the area of computer networking such as Software Defined Networking (SDN). SDN represents an extraordinary opportunity to rethink computer networks, enabling the design and deployment of a future Internet. This paper focuses on the deployment of a complete system, designed with the new requirements of the Future Internet in mind, and aims to provide, monitor and enhance the popular multimedia streaming service of today´s Internet. The testing environment was built in the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI). The conducted experiments illustrate how such a system can function under unstable and changing network conditions, dynamically learn its environment, recognize potential service degradation problems, and react to these challenges in an autonomic manner without the need for human intervention.