The RASCAL System for Managing Autonomic Communication in Disruptive Environments

This paper presents RASCAL, a contingency man- ager system with autonomic capabilities which enables collab- oration among a set of ubiquitous services deployed in the infrastructure and/or in the ad-hoc network. Autonomicity is shown in the context of disruptive environments, that is, a series of locations that may be subject to intermittent or complete disruption to communications equipment. In this paper we show how the RASCAL autonomic architecture and its adaptable policies determine the types of actions to be taken in order to exhibit stability to the end user.