Multiagent System Case study in Network Routing

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Gen. Prof. Dr., Egyptian Armed Forces.

2 Dr., Arab Academy for Science and Technology.

3 Egyptian Armed Forces.

Abstract

Abstract:
Designing a smart routing is a problem running in a dynamic changing environment
which can be manipulated by the mobile intelligent agent, it is an autonomous system
that inhabits dynamic environments, senses the environmental changes and acts to these
changes to realize its goals.
This paper provides a proposed a Routing Software Development Kit (RSDK) which is
a multi-agent simulating environment that simulates the distance vector routing
algorithm, but in an agent based suite, taking into consideration some main factors such
that route discovery, convergence time and instantaneous network load.
The proposed agent based algorithm draws upon some basic biologically inspired
principles called ANTS which facilitate coordination among mobile agents that
implement the routing tasks; simulated pheromones are used to control the movements
of agents and minimizing the resulting agent load on the network.

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