Using Adaptation and Organisational Knowledge to Coordinate Mobile Agents

Quality of Service (QoS) routing generally requires fast reaction times, tight coupling of interactions between routing systems and mechanisms for ensuring that actions taken throughout the network are coherent. 18] showed how an agent based QoS routing approach can ben-eet signiicantly from making controller agents mobile and allowing them adapt the information and control distribution in the network over time. This paper discusses how giving mobile agents organisational models can bridge the gap between the need for tight, fast coordination and freedom to move around the network. Furthermore coordination is achieved without imposing any globally or external controls on the mobile agents in the system.