SAN 2011 - Workshop on Self-Adaptive Networking (SAN)

Self-organizing networks are often built with explicit protocols (e.g., neighbor discovery, DHCP). Because of this, organization is a primary goal and so it is easy to recognize these systems. Self-adaptive networks often have their adaption mechanism built into a protocol as a component. Common examples include congestion avoidance in TCP and collision detection in Ethernet. Through this workshop, we plan to explore the ways in which self-adaptation is currently used in networking (often without being identified as such) and how techniques from the self-* community can be applied to perform these functions with a principled approach.