Application of Agent Technology to Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks
Henning Sanneck, Michael Berger, Bernhard Bauer · 2002
Wireless communication systems beyond the third generation will be diverse. It can be expected that several different radio technologies as well as several classes of mobile devices running a variety of applications will be deployed, while the Internet Protocol (IP) will play the role of the unifying architectural component. To cope with the described diversity, networking paradigms like programmable / active networking should be incorporated into the vision of "beyond 3G" wireless / mobile networks. Particularly, we propose to evaluate agents as one enabling technology for active wireless / mobile networking. Therefore, we highlight some key properties of agents and discuss their potential advantages, disadvantages and tradeoffs for a "beyond 3G" network scenario.