Piloting the Spanning Tree Protocol in home networks using a multi-agent system

Lionel Molinier, Mathieu Ligockiy, Guy Pujolle, Dominique Gaiti
2008 2008 1st IFIP Wireless Days  
Broadband access to the Internet at home was the first step in the emergence of so called Home Networks. In a close future, the number of appliance connected will rise and the network will become the home backbone. Its architecture has to evolve to tackle those new challenges. After a study of the network requirements, this paper introduces a complete system to pilot the forwarding ensuring a proper QoS. This is achieved by a knowledge plane composed of agents embedded on devices, which are optimizing the Ethernet layer.
doi:10.1109/wd.2008.4812910 fatcat:snkrfa7kezd5lfsvvoctv2cuwi