Evaluating Multi Agent Based Service Architectures for Call Admission Control

Multi Agent Systems find their use in various diverse domains where interaction, collaboration, cooperation, or negotiation with other agents and with the environment is required to solve a particular problem. In this paper we model call admission control as a multi agent system and attempt to evaluate the impact that the degree of distribution of agents and interaction models of multi agent architectures have on the call admission control performance attributes such as reactivity, responsiveness, message overhead, utility and resource utilization, as well as general quality attributes such as robustness, modifiability, and scalability. This knowledge becomes essential while choosing the correct MAS architecture to meet the specified service level agreement.