Title
An intelligent-agent approach for congestion management in 3G networks
Abstract
The exploitation of wideband code division multiple access (W-CDMA) technology in third generation (3G) networks gives an inherent flexibility in managing the system capacity, although radio resource management (RRM), including congestion management, is more complicated. To guarantee the quality of service (QoS) provided to customers, the concept of a ''service level agreement'' (SLA) is introduced and these must be managed by the RRM. This work proposes the application of intelligent agents in SLA-based control in the RRM, essentially for congestion management and demonstrates the ability of intelligent agents to improve and maintain the QoS to meet the required SLA. A particularly novel aspect of this work is the use of learning (case-based reasoning-CBR) to predict the control strategies to be imposed. If there is no congestion, the network operates as provisioned, but, if congestion occurs, it is detected by the agent monitoring process and CBR will be used to provide a suitable policy either by recalling from experience or recalculating the solution from its knowledge. With this approach, the system performance will be monitored at all times and a suitable policy can be applied immediately as the system environment changes, resulting in the QoS being maintained.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.engappai.2007.05.004
Eng. Appl. of AI
Keywords
Field
DocType
sla-based control,system performance,intelligent agent,system capacity,suitable policy,system environment change,radio resource management,required sla,intelligent-agent approach,congestion management,control strategy,wideband code division multiple access,case based reasoning,case base reasoning,quality of service
Radio resource management,Intelligent agent,Congestion management,Computer science,Service-level agreement,Quality of service,Computer network,Provisioning,System capacity,Case-based reasoning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
21
4
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.43
9
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
S. Chantaraskul1193.23
Laurie Cuthbert215012.95