Title :
Dynamic agent-based prioritized connection admission for stressed networks
Author :
Beard, Cory C. ; Frost, Victor S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Kansas Univ., Lawrence, KS, USA
Abstract :
For broadband networks to be widely useful to society, they must dynamically recognize some connections, like those that deal with emergencies or natural disasters, as having greater importance than others. This paper proposes an architecture of geographically distributed ticket servers that issue importance tickets for connection admission. User agents contact ticket servers using an agent communication language, then a ticket server intelligent agent determines how valuable of a ticket to issue within the current context of an emergency or natural disaster. Use of ticket servers and agent communication enables quick adaptation to dynamic context changes and provides high user satisfaction
Keywords :
broadband networks; multimedia communication; software agents; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication network management; agent communication language; broadband networks; connection admission; dynamic agent-based prioritized connection admission; dynamic context changes; emergency; geographically distributed ticket servers; importance tickets; natural disaster; stressed networks; ticket server intelligent agent; ticket servers; user agents; user satisfaction; Admission control; Broadband communication; Computer science; Context; Disaster management; Electronic mail; Intelligent agent; Network servers; Personnel; Telecommunication traffic;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 1999. ICC '99. 1999 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5284-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.1999.765569