Enhancing WLAN/UMTS dual-mode services using a novel distributed multi-agent scheduling scheme

Authors:
Jiann-Liang Chen;Ming-Chiao Chen;Yan-Cheng Chang
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taitung University, Taitung 95002, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien 97401, Taiwan, ROC
Venue:
Computers and Electrical Engineering
Year:
2009

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Abstract

WLAN services are inexpensive and have a high bandwidth, while UMTS services provide wider coverage area and high mobility. Based on intelligent deduction, this study presents a novel service scheduling scheme for WLAN/UMTS dual-mode networks. The proposed system, Distributed Multi-Agent System (DMAS), consists of a set of problem-solving agents that autonomously process their own tasks and interoperate with one another by a shared database to reach a suitable schedule for dual-mode network services. A two-level control mechanism comprising local-control and meta-control is presented to achieve a high degree of goodness in service scheduling. Simulation results indicate that the Quality of Service (QoS) of the proposed discipline in terms of average delay and jitter is better than that of the pure UMTS network by 25% and 10%, respectively. The scheduling discipline can improve the service quality in multiple-mode networks.