Architectures and Models.- Technology Neutral Principles and Concepts for Autonomic Networking.- A Telco Approach to Autonomic Infrastructure Management.- Modelling Behaviour and Distribution for the Management of Next Generation Networks.- Middleware and Services.- Autonomic Communication with RASCAL Hybrid Connectivity Management.- Autonomic Resource Regulation in IP Military Networks: A Situatedness Based Knowledge Plane.- Autonomic Service Access Management for Next Generation Converged Networks.- Networks.- Cross-layer Optimisations for Autonomic Networks.- An Autonomic MPLS DiffServ-TE Domain.- Game Theoretic Framework for Autonomic Spectrum Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks.

Written by leading scientists and researchers, this book presents a comprehensive reference of state-of-the-art efforts and early results in the area of autonomic networking and communication. This special issue explores different ways that autonomic principles can be applied to existing and future networks. In particular, the book has three main parts, each of them represented by three papers discussing them from industrial and academic perspectives.