A Comprehensive Resource Management Framework for Next Generation Wireless Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Secure Network Management Within an Open-Source Mobile Agent Framework
Journal of Network and Systems Management
In-service QoS monitoring of real-time applications using SM MIB
International Journal of Network Management
Deploying personalized mobile services in an agent-based environment
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Agent-based middleware to access multimedia services in a Grid environment
Multiagent and Grid Systems
Development platform for parallel image processing
SSIP'06 Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS International Conference on Signal, Speech and Image Processing
International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking
Design and Implementation of an Intelligent Robot Agent System Considering the Server's Workload
KES-AMSTA '07 Proceedings of the 1st KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications
Autonomous mobile agent routing for efficient server resource allocation
Journal of Systems and Software
A Web-based monitor and management system architecture for enterprise virtual private network
Computers and Electrical Engineering
Telecom Network and Service Management: An Operator Survey
MMNS 2009 Proceedings of the 12th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services: Wired-Wireless Multimedia Networks and Services Management
IEA/AIE'07 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Industrial, engineering, and other applications of applied intelligent systems
Security Schemes for a Mobile Agent Based Network and System Management Framework
Journal of Network and Systems Management
IPOM'06 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE international conference on IP Operations and Management
Applications of agent technology in communications: a review
Computer Communications
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Agent programming technology has emerged as a flexible and complementary way to manage resources of distributed systems due to the increased flexibility in adapting to the dynamically changing requirements of such systems. A very promising application of this technology is related to the control of forthcoming networking systems which will represent a competitive marketplace with a multitude of vendors, operators and customers. Thus, new reference models have to be investigated in order to better satisfy users' requirements in a framework where resource allocation is provided under the control of different and often competing stakeholders (users, network providers, service providers, etc.). We believe that autonomy is one of the features that will characterize the behavior of agents in such environment: autonomous choices will be taken as the result of coordination among different cooperating software entities. Following this direction, we describe the efficient integration and adoption of mobile agents and genetic algorithms in the implementation of a valuable strategy for the development of effective market based routes for brokering purposes in the future multioperator network marketplace. The proposed genetic algorithm provides a kind of stochastic algorithm searching process in order to identify optimal resource allocation strategies. The agent-based network management approach represents an underlying framework and structure for the multioperator network model, and can be used to facilitate the collection and dissemination of the required management data, as well as the efficient and distributed operation of the algorithm. We also present some numerical results to assess the performance and operation effectiveness of our approach, by applying it in some test case scenarios