Model Based Approach for QoS Constrained Communication and Data Integration among Multiple Agents

Author(s):  
Manjunath Ramachandra ◽  
Vikas Jain

Meeting the agreed quality of service in a resource crunched data network is challenging. An intelligent element is required to carry out the activities involved. The inferences drawn with different rules need to be merged. Agents are useful for handling this responsibility in data networks and help in resource sharing. An agent is basically an entity that can be viewed as perceiving its environment through sensors and acting upon its environment through effectors. To handle the network traffic, the agents acquire the traffic status and provide the information on the availability of resources to the source of the traffic. Hence the study on agent communication has become important. Intelligent agents continuously perform the activities including perception of dynamic conditions in the environment, reasoning for interpretation of the perceptions, solve problems, draw inferences and determine actions.

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 413-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Saliba ◽  
Michael A. Beresford ◽  
Milosh Ivanovich ◽  
Paul Fitzpatrick

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Zaki Hasan ◽  
Tat-Chee Wan

Multimedia sensor networks for real-time applications have strict constraints on delay, packet loss, and energy consumption requirements. For example, video streaming in a disaster-management scenario requires careful handling to ensure that the end-to-end delay is within the acceptable range and the video is received properly without any distortion. The failure to transmit a video stream effectively occurs for many reasons, including sensor function limitations, excessive power consumption, and a lack of routing reliability. We propose a novel mathematical model for quality of service (QoS) route determination that enables a sensor to determine the optimal path for minimising resource use while satisfying the required QoS constraints. The proposed mathematical model uses the Lagrangian relaxation mixed integer programming technique to define critical parameters and appropriate objective functions for controlling the adaptive QoS constrained route discovery process. Performance trade-offs between QoS requirements and energy efficiency were simulated using the LINGO mathematical programming language. The proposed approach significantly improves the network lifetime, while reducing energy consumption and decreasing average end-to-end delays within the sensor network via optimised resource sharing in intermediate nodes compared with existing routing algorithms.


2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 1992-2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurelio La Corte ◽  
Sabrina Sicari

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