Towards Cognitive Autonomous Networks

Editors Stephen S. Mwanje is a Senior Research Engineer in the Cognitive Network Management research team at Nokia Bell Labs in Munich, Germany. He leads the team's research on the system aspects related to the development and application of Cognition in network management, with a special focus on the management of the radio access networks. Prior to Bell Labs, he worked for 8 years in network operations, planning and deployment for radio access, microwave and fiber optic systems. Christian Mannweiler is the Head of the Core Network Architecture & Security Research department at Nokia Bell Labs in Munich, Germany. His research focuses on network automation for 5G mobile communications systems, architectures for cloudified networks, and integration of cellular and private industrial networks. Prior to working at Bell Labs, he has been a Senior Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) in Kaiserslautern, Germany.