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Multipoint-to-Point Routing With QoS Guarantees Using Mobile Agents

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Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications (MATA 2001)

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To overcome the shortcomings of existing IP networks and to facilitate the overall quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning in the near-future networks, new technologies such as Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Differentiated Services (Diffserv) have been proposed for support of differentiation of classes of services and guarantee of QoS. Diffserv and MPLS, however, require improved capabilities from the current routing algorithms. In this paper, we investigate such an improvement by developing algorithms for determining the optimal multipoint-to-point (mp2p) routes through the use of mobile software agents. We present an mp2p routing scheme using a mobile intelligent agent system, called WAVE. The agents work in a highly distributed and parallel manner, cooperating to determine optimal routes in an mp2p connection scenario. This work aims at closing the gap between the theoretical routing research based on mobile agents, and practical routing requirements for real world networks that are likely to be deployed during the forthcoming years.

This work supported in part by Conacyt México

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  1. Department of Electrical And Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia, 2356 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6T 1Z4

    Sergio Gonzalez-VAlenzuela & Victor C. M. Leung

  2. Department of Computer Science, The University of British Columbia, 2366 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6T 1Z4

    Son T. Vuong

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  1. Mobile Computing and Networking Research Laboratory (LARIM) Department of Computer Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, P.O. Box 6079, Station Centre-Ville, Montreal, (Quebec), Canada, H3C 3A7

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  2. Ericsson Research Canada, 8400 Decarie Blvd., Town of Mount Royal, (Quebec), Canada, H4P 2N2

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Gonzalez-VAlenzuela, S., Leung, V.C.M., Vuong, S.T. (2001). Multipoint-to-Point Routing With QoS Guarantees Using Mobile Agents. In: Pierre, S., Glitho, R. (eds) Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications. MATA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2164. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44651-6_7

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