Standardization of an autonomicity-enabled mesh architecture framework, from ETSI-AFI group perspective: Work in progress (Part 1 of 2)

In this two-part paper we describe the ongoing standardization work on designing an autonomicity-enabled mesh architecture framework. This is work in progress being carried out by the AFI (Autonomic network engineering for the self-managing Future Internet) working group of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). In this first part, we briefly describe the AFI GANA (Generic Autonomic Network Architecture) Reference Model for autonomic network engineering, cognition and self-management, and then discuss instantiation issues: the stability and coordination of autonomic functions as well as governance profiles and policies. The topics covered in this part serve as an introduction to the second part (a separate paper) where we describe the steps needed to accomplish an instantiation of GANA onto wireless mesh networks - thereby creating an autonomicity-enabled mesh architecture.