Dynamic Agent-Based Prioritized Connection Admission for Stressed Networks

For broadband networks to be widely useful to society, they must dynamically recognize some connections, like those that deal with emergencies or natural disasters, as having greater importance than others. This paper proposes an architecture of geographically distributed ticket servers that issue importance tickets for connection admission. User agents contact ticket servers using an agent communication language, then a ticket server intelligent agent determines how valuable of a ticket to issue within the current context of an emergency or natural disaster. Use of ticket servers and agent communication enables quick adaptation to dynamic context changes and provides high user satisfaction.