TY - GEN
T1 - Application-oriented flow control in agent-based network middleware
AU - Kitagata, Gen
AU - Suganuma, Takuo
AU - Kinoshita, Tetsuo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - In this paper, we propose a new architecture of the global communication networks, the Dynamic Networking Architecture. In the proposed architecture, a new network middleware called Flexible Network Layer (FNL) is introduced between the application layer and the transport layer to enhance the capabilities of communication networks by dealing with various changes detected in human users, applications, platforms and networked environment. To realize the FNL, we adopt an agent-based computing framework as a software infrastructure to develop and manage various components and related knowledge of the FNL. In this paper we give an internal architecture and agent-based design of the FNL. We also show an experimental application using the FNL, the Dynamic Flow Control Application, which performs the user-oriented flow control, to discuss the characteristics and effectiveness of the proposed architecture.
AB - In this paper, we propose a new architecture of the global communication networks, the Dynamic Networking Architecture. In the proposed architecture, a new network middleware called Flexible Network Layer (FNL) is introduced between the application layer and the transport layer to enhance the capabilities of communication networks by dealing with various changes detected in human users, applications, platforms and networked environment. To realize the FNL, we adopt an agent-based computing framework as a software infrastructure to develop and manage various components and related knowledge of the FNL. In this paper we give an internal architecture and agent-based design of the FNL. We also show an experimental application using the FNL, the Dynamic Flow Control Application, which performs the user-oriented flow control, to discuss the characteristics and effectiveness of the proposed architecture.
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U2 - 10.1007/3-540-45680-5_13
DO - 10.1007/3-540-45680-5_13
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84941340336
SN - 3540440267
SN - 9783540456803
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 178
EP - 189
BT - Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - 5th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2002, Proceedings
A2 - Kuwabara, Kazuhiro
A2 - Lee, Jaeho
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 5th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2002
Y2 - 18 August 2002 through 19 August 2002
ER -