Intelligent Agents in Telecommunication Networks
Costas Tsatsoulis, Leen‐Kiat Soh · 2018
This chapter presents an overview of the application of intelligent agents to telecommunication networks. It discusses what constitutes an agent and its intelligence. The chapter also discusses how intelligent agents can help manage telecommunication networks, ranging from increasing the reliability and security of the networks to providing better human-computer interface tools and fault diagnosis. It describes several research projects and approaches that are investigating and explores new technologies in intelligent agents in telecommunication networks. The chapter reviews negotiation-based communications among agents and how it applies to agents in telecommunication networks. It provides a design example of an intelligent agent in telecommunication networks. Mobile agents are sometimes known as mobile codes. On the least intelligent definition basis, mobile agents are programs that can be sent to and executed at a remote site. The field of artificial life has given rise to swarm intelligence, in which a group of unintelligent agents of limited capabilities exhibiting collectively intelligent behavior.