Title :
Subsumption and survivability in bidding for bandwidth
Author :
Bigham, John ; Hayzelden, Alex
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Queen Mary & Westfield Coll., London, UK
Abstract :
Cooperative agents provide layers of competence to control a telecom network. Higher planning layers coordinate lower layers by seeking to globally optimise the survivability of the network. It is shown that the process of finding the best flow in the network can be viewed as a distributed auction where the prices are obtained from the derivatives of the survivability function. In the application, a simple measure of survivability maps into familiar routing heuristics
Keywords :
cooperative systems; intelligent control; telecommunication control; telecommunication network reliability; bandwidth; competence layers; cooperative agents; distributed auction; planning layers; routing heuristics; subsumption; survivability; telecom network control; Application software; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Communication system control; Control systems; Educational institutions; Ice; Intelligent networks; Reactive power; Routing; Software systems; Switches; Telecommunication control; Telecommunications;
Conference_Titel :
Multi Agent Systems, 1998. Proceedings. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8500-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699229
