Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

Univerself is a FP7 IP, with 19 partners, among which Alcatel-Lucent, Orange Labs, Thales Comunications, Telefonica, Telecom Italia as industrial partners. It lasted from Sept. 2010 to Nov. 2013. See also http://www.univerself-project.eu/ Univerself aimed at developing self-management methods for telecommunication networks, regardless of technological boundaries (wireless, wireline, services) and at providing tools for their integrability and acceptability. The focus was first on the development of network empowerment methods (NEM), that address specific needs in automating management functions, for example power tuning in SONs (Self-Organizing Networks), network and/or service diagnosis, vulnerability detection and correction, knowledge acquisition and elaboration, optimal resource usage and allocation, etc. A second set of results was on a methodology to deploy and coordinate such NEMs, through a Universal Management Framework (UMF).