The world is going towards autonomic equipment. The Authone project aims at developing the autonomic paradigm in home networks with the goal of creating a competitive technological edge for European players in the domain of home networking. The main objective of Authone is to design a very innovative home network communication architecture with autonomous components allowing self-managing properties necessary for future home and pervasive scenarios.

This new architecture will be composed of 4 planes (data, control, management and knowledge planes) allowing the system to self-configure, self-secure and self-monitor in real time so that the home-network is always optimised depending on the knowledge plane information. The project will develop this key concept of knowledge plane for driving home-networks in an autonomic way. Three main technical objectives will be addressed:

The Authone project shall deliver: Concepts, algorithms and environments for the development of autonomic communication systems; Methods for optimising the management of autonomous home–networks, encompassing control, monitoring, measurement, automation; New agents for intelligent and dynamic control of home-network platforms; Design of an autonomic control platform that supports scalability, openness, distributed monitoring, adaptativity, security and local control. The consortium partners represent a large amount of expertise (telecom operators, manufactures, research laboratories, universities and service providers) needed to tackle the project objectives.