Title :
Flexible group communication protocol
Author :
Enokido, Tomoya ; Takizawa, Makoto
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Syst. Eng., Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan
Abstract :
The group protocol supports applications with enough quality of service (QoS) in change of QoS supported by the underlying network and required by applications. A flexible group service is supported for applications by cooperation of multiple autonomous agents. Each agent dynamically and autonomously takes a class of each protocol function like retransmission. The classes taken by an agent is consistent with the other agents, which might be different from the others. A group is composed of views in each of which agents autonomously take protocol classes which might be different from the other agents but are consistent.
Keywords :
multi-agent systems; multicast communication; protocols; quality of service; QoS; flexible group communication protocol; multiple autonomous agent; quality of service; Application software; Autonomous agents; Bandwidth; Broadcasting; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Delay effects; Multicast protocols; Quality of service; Systems engineering and theory;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 2003. FTDCS 2003. Proceedings. The Ninth IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1910-5
DOI :
10.1109/FTDCS.2003.1204347
