| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/T20328/01 |
| Title: |
Cognitive Quality of Service Assurance in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks |
| Principal Investigator: |
Mamdani, Professor E |
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| Department: |
Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Organisation: |
Imperial College London |
| Scheme: |
Overseas Travel Grants Pre-FEC |
| Starts: |
29 November 2004 |
Ends: |
28 November 2007 |
Value (£): |
15,402
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Mobile Computing |
Networks & Distributed Systems |
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Recent developments in Internet technology, device functionality, and network availability has led to ever-increasing numbers of users demanding a wider range of new services based on multimedia applications. This includes video-conferencing, video-telephony, movie-on-demand, news-on-demand, entertainment services (games and music) and so on. This raises several issues in Quality of Service (QoS) management, resource allocation, routing and so on. This project proposes to investigate the use of agent technology to design intelligent systems (architecture and algorithms) for QoS delivery. We aim to specify, implement and apply an open, general purpose platform for QoS assurance based on the idea of agent societies, in which software components participate as social entities, managing applications, services and network connections on behalf of the human entities they represent. The particular innovation is the degree of computational intelligence embedded in each agent, which will map a 'high' level representation of user requirements and multimedia stream characteristics into dynamic network management control algorithms for resource allocation, routing table updates, and flow control. Furthermore, we propose to apply intelligent agents in mobile ad hoc networks (dynamic networks with possibly no fixed infrastructure) where issues network configuration, security, and reliability must be addressed in order to support flexible and adaptable multimedia services which will in turn offer the requisite quality of presentations to the users.
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