A design of multiagent-based system for routing

The rapid development of internetworking and the need to deploy much more intelligent systems to speed up convergence times have brought intelligent agents in data communication domain. Intelligent agents are ideally qualified to knock the door of data communication applications, and this is due to their interactivity, autonomy, reactivity, and intelligence. A novel functional design of a multiagent-based router is described which can be deployed in internetworking. Slight modifications have been enforced to traditional packet formats of either distance-vector or link-state protocols to cope with the suggested system. Convergence time after topology changes for different-size and different-topology internetworks has been calculated. The addition of new router and its failure or link fail cases are examined thoroughly. A step towards a complete multiagent based system for internetworking and data communication is considered.