QoS management in MANETs using norm-governed agent societies

  • Authors:

  • Jeremy Pitt;Pallapa Venkataram;Abe Mamdani

  • Affiliations:

  • Intelligent Systems & Networks Group, Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK;Dept. of Electrical Communication Eng., Indian Institute of Science, Protocol Engineering & Technology Unit, Bangalore, India;Intelligent Systems & Networks Group, Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK

  • Venue:
  • ESAW'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) are self-created and self-organized by a collection of mobile nodes, interconnected by multi-hop wireless paths in a strictly peer-to-peer fashion. Such networks offer unique benefits and versatility with respect to bandwidth spatial re-use, intrinsic fault tolerance, and low-cost rapid deployment. However, Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning to applications running in such networks is intrinsically difficult. In this paper, we consider a QoS framework for MANETs which monitors network resources and application requirements, and feeds information to agents, who coordinate efficient resource allocation on a social basis (in this case, decision-making according to normative policies and protocols). Thus we propose a framework for QoS management in MANETs which converges network-centric events, metrics and parameters with organizational intelligence offered by norm-governed multi-agent systems, as a step towards realising a vision of ubiquitous networking.