Towards self organising telecommunications networks

Telecommunications networks are becoming increasingly automated in order to improve customer perceived quality of service/reliability and to provide integrated management of the growing number of transport and switching technologies. As the network complexity increases centralised control becomes less attractive, tending to increase response times to network events, reduce overall resilience and encourage a top level approach to development of network management applications. This results in a massive build up of software complexity. We discuss how distributed network control using embedded algorithms can overcome these problems leading towards the concept of a self organising telecommunications network