Market- Based Multi-Agent Systems for ATM Network Management
M. A. Gibney, Nicholas R. Jennings · 1997
This paper discusses a distributed approach to traffic management in ATM networks. The aim is to identify and elaborate a computationally cheap messaging protocol and decision making process which provides an efficient traffic management regime. In this work a multi-agent system in which the individual decision making processes are modelled as economic entities is proposed. A network management system has to strike a balance between accepting too much traffic and refusing too many requests from paying customers who want to use it and who may not return if they are disappointed. If the use of network resources is allowed to increase unchecked, network performance will degrade. If the network performance decreases too far, both new and existing users will cease to trust it and if they cease to trust it they