A Simulation of the Fundamental Attributes of Autonomous Computing

Autonomous systems are able to adapt to changing environments (such as changes in the resource availability or component failures) in a way that preserves high level operational goals, such as service level objectives. This paper basically focuses on the fundamental attributes of Autonomous computing that are self-healing, self-configuring, self-optimizing and self-protecting. More specifically, the paper presents the detailed design of an Autonomic Download Manager (ADM) which simulates all the fundamental attributes of Autonomous Computing.