Title: Self-configuration of HAN Devices using TR-069

Abstract
Communication network technologies have been evolving exponentially in the late decades.  The innovations brought increase the network capabilities and open new horizons to creating novel and original services. The heterogeneity of networks and the difference in equipment qualifications increase the level of complexity in the technological advancement.  In such heterogeneous environment, service management has become an everyday challenge to service providers.  Important efforts have been deployed to innovate in the exploitation of intelligent devices and restricted area networks in the home and other private locations at the edge of the operator access networks, or what we call the “outer edge”.  From an operator and/or service provider point of view, the outer edge at once represents a significant challenge, as it requires bringing together all these heterogeneous and complex networks into operators’ infrastructures and management systems to provide end-to-end service delivery.  
The MAGNETO (Management of Outer Network) project has the goal of adding a new level of service assurance and network management support to the outer edge domain.  It aims to develop an innovative distributed management framework and service management approach that will enable integrated service and network management for outer edge devices in emerging networks.  The framework will provide a means to incorporate the management of home networks into telecommunication service provider management systems to provide end to end service management. The framework will also provide a means to organize the management systems to scale to deal with anticipated expansion into millions of connected outer edge networks using an autonomic approach to self management. This will enable self configuration of devices and autonomic handling of assurance issues relating to the operation of services once services have been deployed.
In this thesis research, we will be investigating in the device self-configuration with respect to any changes either in the device itself or in the environment (i.e. quality of service (QoS), diagnosed faults, etc.).  To achieve this goal, we propose to integrate Broadband forum standards, one of the widely used solutions for HAN management, namely CPE WAN Management Protocol (CWMP) most known for TR-069, for an autonomous remote management of devices in the home network.