Technological Enablers for Self-Manageable Future Internet Elements

In its 5^th decade, the Internet´s future evolution is hampered by the increasing complexity and sophistication of the processes managing its infrastructure. Management costs require a technically skilled human intellect, amounting to a substantial part of total cost of ownership. Self-management is positioned as a key capacity towards a scalable future Internet architecture. Herein we present key technological enablers for self-manageable future Internet systems, namely monitoring, decision-making and machine learning. We survey the state-of-the-art in network management aspects of these thematic areas and present a use case where their synergetic capacities render solutions to a known transport problem in wireless settings. Finally, we conclude the paper with a discussion of important issues for these technological enablers in the context of future Internet.