TY - GEN
T1 - A multi-agent architecture for designing and simulating large scale wireless systems resource allocation
AU - Papazoglou, P. M.
AU - Karras, D. A.
AU - Papademetriou, R. C.
PY - 2007/6/1
Y1 - 2007/6/1
N2 - The simulation model adaptability to real network behavior is the key concept in wireless communications. In a cellular network, many procedures such as call admission, hand-off, etc take place simultaneously for every individual user. Every network procedure acts autonomously, interacts with the network environment (gathers information such as interference conditions), takes decisions (e.g. call establishment), etc. Although this is known in the literature, there is lack of suitable representations for such network procedures in the simulation systems proposed so far, thus compromising simulation model adaptability to real network behavior. To achieve such adaptability we herein propose to change the point of view in network procedure representation. Instead of viewing them as independent programming functions or even objects in a high level language, which are sequentially executed, due to their aforementioned properties it is proposed that such network procedures could be more efficiently modeled as agents. Considering this new approach, the agent cooperation and communication in terms of negotiation and agreement is a critical issue. In this paper we present a centralized cooperative multi-agent negotiation scheme applied to a multi-agent layered architecture for designing and simulating resource allocation in cellular communication systems, based on organizational modeling. Moreover, we show the way that the rules and implementation methods of agent negotiation affect the adaptation grade of simulation model to the real cellular network behavior.
AB - The simulation model adaptability to real network behavior is the key concept in wireless communications. In a cellular network, many procedures such as call admission, hand-off, etc take place simultaneously for every individual user. Every network procedure acts autonomously, interacts with the network environment (gathers information such as interference conditions), takes decisions (e.g. call establishment), etc. Although this is known in the literature, there is lack of suitable representations for such network procedures in the simulation systems proposed so far, thus compromising simulation model adaptability to real network behavior. To achieve such adaptability we herein propose to change the point of view in network procedure representation. Instead of viewing them as independent programming functions or even objects in a high level language, which are sequentially executed, due to their aforementioned properties it is proposed that such network procedures could be more efficiently modeled as agents. Considering this new approach, the agent cooperation and communication in terms of negotiation and agreement is a critical issue. In this paper we present a centralized cooperative multi-agent negotiation scheme applied to a multi-agent layered architecture for designing and simulating resource allocation in cellular communication systems, based on organizational modeling. Moreover, we show the way that the rules and implementation methods of agent negotiation affect the adaptation grade of simulation model to the real cellular network behavior.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=39649115400&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72830-6
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-72830-6_42
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-72830-6_42
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:39649115400
SN - 9783540728290
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 405
EP - 415
BT - Agent and Multi-Agent Systems
PB - Springer
T2 - 1st KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems - Technologies and Applications
Y2 - 31 May 2007 through 1 June 2007
ER -