Low‐Level Control of Network Elements from an Agent Platform
Michael R. Hansen, P. Jensen, John K. Soldatos, Evangelos Vayias · 2001
Chapter twelve highlights an issue relevant to many proposed agent-based control solutions—the importance of enabling the agent platform sufficiently low-level access to network devices, sometimes requiring their control logics to be bypassed. The authors describe how this issue was successfully coped with in the ACTS project IMPACT. Although their specific implementation targeted an ATM network environment, the concepts formulated are generic and could be used in the adaptation of other network technologies for agent-based control and management. This is illustrated by the fact that the project succeeded in having IP applications operating seamlessly over an agent-controlled ATM network.