The GANA Model[29] serves as a "template model" that prescribes the design and operating principles of "autonomous decision manager components/elements" called Decision Elements (DEs), responsible for managing "autonomous" and adaptive control of systems and resources, parameters and network services. The reference model defines a hierarchy of DEs, i.e. four basic levels of self-management: the protocol, function, node and network levels. Each DE manages one or more lower-level DEs through a control loop. These lower level DEs are then considered ME of the higher DEs. “Function-level DEs” directly manage protocols, behaviors include automatic detection of operator-specified network targets, policies, and resource capabilities; Autoconfiguration; Self-diagnosis; Self-healing/Self-repair; Self-optimization; and Self-Protection, etc., which must be performed by individual Network Elements. On the specific MEs of the control loop, the DE sends commands, objectives and policies to an ME and receives feedback in the form of monitoring information or other type of knowledge. Each DE carries out some specific control cycles and, therefore, represents an "Autonomous Activity" or "Autonomous Function" (AF). Fig.7 The basic hierarchical control loops Based on our previous work, there are several hierarchical control loops (HCLs) in the platform as shown in Fig.2. HCLs have 2 layers: network layer and function layer. Each control loop consists of four fundamental entities: monitoring, analysis, planning and execution. The analyzing entity is responsible for analyzing the contexts collected by the monitoring entity and calculating the related control policies. Then the planning entity schedules a specific operation if a certain condition i...... middle of the paper ......N Junho Suh Practical Workshop[27] The challenges of SDN/OpenFlow in an operational context and Large-Scale Network Jun Bi, Tsinghua University/CERNET OPEN NETWORKING SUMMIT, April 17, 2012.[28] SDN enablers in the ETSI AFI GANA reference model for autonomous management and control (emerging standard) and impact on virtualization[29] EFIPSANS, Expose the capabilities of IPv6 protocols that can be exploited/extended for the purpose of designing and building networks and services autonomous project, at http://efipsans.org/[30] Chanda A, Westphal C, Raychaudhuri D. Content-based traffic engineering in software-based information-based networks[J]. arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.7517, 2013.[31] Ooka A, Ata S, Koide T et al. OpenFlow-based content-centric network architecture and router implementation[C]//Future Network and Mobile Summit (FutureNetworkSummit), 2013. IEEE, 2013: 1-10.