Communications network
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1. A multi-service communications network comprising more than one node, each node comprising one or more nodal policy and being configured to process one or more services in accordance with said one or more nodal policy, each nodal policy comprising;
- (i) a service request identifier, said service request identifier determining the type of service request that may be processed by each respective node; and
(ii) one or more service request criteria, said service request criteria determining whether a type of service request defined by said service request identifier will be processed by each respective node characterised in that the processing of said one or more services determining an activity indicator of said node such that the node may vary one or more of the nodal policies in accordance with the activity indicator.
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Abstract
The present invention provides an emergent network that is autonomous at the service level. Network nodes have policies that enable them to process different types of service requests, with the processing earning the nodes ‘rewards’. Successful nodes can pass some or all of their policies to other nodes using the evolutionary biology of bacteria as a model.
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1. A multi-service communications network comprising more than one node, each node comprising one or more nodal policy and being configured to process one or more services in accordance with said one or more nodal policy, each nodal policy comprising;
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(i) a service request identifier, said service request identifier determining the type of service request that may be processed by each respective node; and
(ii) one or more service request criteria, said service request criteria determining whether a type of service request defined by said service request identifier will be processed by each respective node characterised in that the processing of said one or more services determining an activity indicator of said node such that the node may vary one or more of the nodal policies in accordance with the activity indicator. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method of upgrading a multi-service communications network such that the network can process an additional service, the network comprising more than one node, each node being configured to process one or more services in accordance with one or more nodal policies, each nodal policy comprising;
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(i) a service request identifier, said service request identifier determining the type of service request that may be processed by each respective node; and
(ii) one or more service request criteria, said service request criteria determining whether a type of service request defined by said service request identifier will be processed by each respective node the method comprising the step of inserting an additional policy into the network, the policy being configured to enable a node to process the additional service.
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22. A method of operating a multi-service communications network comprising more than one node, the method comprising the steps of
(a) each node processing one or more types of service requests in accordance with one or more nodal policies, each nodal policy comprising; -
(i) a service request identifier, said service request identifier determining the type of service request that may be processed by each respective node; and
(ii) one or more service request criteria, said service request criteria determining whether a type of service request defined by said service request identifier will be processed by each respective node;
characterised by the step of(b) processing said one or more services to determine an activity indicator of said node such that the node may vary one or more of the nodal policies in accordance with the activity indicator. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26)
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