Autonomous Agents for Self-managed MPLS DiffServ-TE Domain

Rana Rahim-Amoud (1, 2) , Leila Merghem-Boulahia (2) , Dominique Gaïti (2)

1 LaSTRe - Laboratoire des Systèmes électroniques, Télécommunications et Réseaux (Université Libanaise)
2 ERA - Environnement de Réseaux Autonomes

The combination between DiffServ (Differentiated Services) and Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) presents a very attractive strategy to backbone network service providers. It provides scalable QoS and traffic engineering capabilities. However, the management of such a network is not a simple function and could not be done manually. In fact, it would be much more economic and effective to automatically manage networks. In this paper, we discuss the essential characteristics needed to build an autonomic network. We also propose a novel architecture based on Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) in order to automatically manage an MPLS-DiffServ TE domain. Simulation results are provided to illustrate the efficiency of our proposition.

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Rana Rahim-Amoud, Leila Merghem-Boulahia, Dominique Gaïti. Autonomous Agents for Self-managed MPLS DiffServ-TE Domain. First International IFIP TC6 Conference, AN 2006, Sep 2006, Paris, France. pp.119-131, ⟨10.1007/11880905_11⟩. ⟨hal-02874771⟩