A Multi-agent Paradigm for the Inter-domain Demand Allocation Process

Authors:
Monique Calisti;Boi Faltings
Affiliations:
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Venue:
DSOM '99 Proceedings of the 10th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management: Active Technologies for Network and Service Management
Year:
1999

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Abstract

Market liberalisation and increasing demands for the allocation of services which span several networks are pushing every network operator to evolve the way of interacting with peer operators. The Inter-domain Demand Allocation (IDA) process is a very complex task for several reasons: there are different actors involved, end-to-end routing must take into account QoS requirements, network resources and information are distributed, etc. In this paper we address the problem of the QoS-based multi-domain routing, and more specifically a multi-agent paradigm for supporting the IDA process is defined. We show how Artificial Intelligence methods for distributed problem solving supply a compact way to formalise the multi-domain routing process, and how this formalism enables an agent middle-ware to route demands across distinct domains.