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Organization and Coordination for On-Line Routing in Communications Networks

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Software Agents for Future Communication Systems

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This chapter considers the problem of routing communication demands in high speed networks which support Quality of Service constraints. Routing in the new generation of high speed networks is a particularly thorny problem: the large amount of information required for routing decisions is inherently distributed and may change rapidly over time, guarantees of service quality for every connection need to be met, many connections need to share the same resources and routes need to be found quickly to provide “dial-tone” connectivity to customers. These criteria make the task of distributed resource management and allocation very complex.

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Willmott, S., Faltings, B., Frei, C., Calisti, M. (1999). Organization and Coordination for On-Line Routing in Communications Networks. In: Hayzelden, A.L.G., Bigham, J. (eds) Software Agents for Future Communication Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58418-3_5

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