EMANICS
EMANICS is a project funded by the European Sixth Framework Program (FP6). The acronym stands for "European Network of Excellence for the Management of Internet Technologies and Complex Services"
Objectives
EMANICS addresses the scalability, complexity, dynamics, security, accounting and automation challenges that emerge in the network and service management plane of the Future Internet and the complex services running on top of it. Its main objective is to extend the European leadership and expertise in the area of the network and service management plane, which is critical to every communication network. To this end, EMANICS aims at:
(1) Collecting and synthesizing requirements towards management frameworks from all application domains and network infrastructures,
(2) Developing European consensus and leadership on novel paradigms and models for meeting the requirements of integrated large access to broadband services,
(3) Experimenting and implementing new management approaches using advanced Internet technologies applied to target the next generation Internet which will be delivered by future broadband infrastructures,
(4) Structuring and integrating the European research in network and service management so as to strengthen the European leadership and innovation in this discipline.