Virtual path control for ATM networks with call level quality of service guarantees
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
The Hollowman: an innovative ATM control architecture
Proceedings of the fifth IFIP/IEEE international symposium on Integrated network management V : integrated management in a virtual world: integrated management in a virtual world
A TMN system for VPC and routing management in ATM networks
Proceedings of the fourth international symposium on Integrated network management IV
OPENET: an open and efficient control platform for ATM networks
Journal of High Speed Networks
Meta-Heuristics: Theory and Applications
Meta-Heuristics: Theory and Applications
Mobile Agent-Based Network and ServiceManagement
Journal of Network and Systems Management
The Application of Intelligent and Mobile Agents to Networks and Service Management
IS&N '98 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligence and Services in Networks: Technology for Ubiquitous Telecom Services
Distributed Intelligence in Services and Networks
IS&N '99 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligence and Services in Networks: Paving the Way for an Open Service Market
Variable Sociability in Agent-Based Decision Making
ATAL '99 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VI, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL),
Agent technology in communications systems: an overview
The Knowledge Engineering Review
The Tempest: a framework for safe, resource assured, programmable networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
The IEEE P1520 standards initiative for programmable network interfaces
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Communications Magazine
Realizing a foundation for programmability of ATM networks with the binding architecture
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Decentralized Network Management Using Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Journal of Network and Systems Management
A multi-agent self-adaptative management framework
International Journal of Network Management
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This paper presents the architecture and implementation of a distributed multi-agent system designed to provide flexible control and efficient resource management of a communications network. The system architecture enables different service providers and the network provider to use different control algorithms on the same logically partitioned physical infrastructure. All the mechanisms have been implemented and successfully tested on real experimental telecommunications networks. The system components are first described and then results from experiments and performance issues are discussed. The problem of interfacing a multi-agent system to network devices is then discussed. Interfacing agents with the network requires some form of programmable interface, since it is necessary, for example, to override conventional ATM signaling. At the moment programmable network device interfaces are not always available, particularly in commercially available devices and, thus, generic operations using management protocols have to be used. A generic architecture for embedding custom network control functionality into ATM networks is described.