Publication - Using Organization Knowledge to Improve Routing Performance in Wireless Multi-Agent Networks

Authors: Zafar, Huzaifa; Lesser, Victor; Corkill, Daniel; and Ganesan, Deepak
Title: Using Organization Knowledge to Improve Routing Performance in Wireless Multi-Agent Networks
Abstract: Multi-agent systems benefit greatly from an organization design that guides agents in determining when to communicate, how often, with whom, with what priority, and so on. However, this same organization knowledge is not utilized by general-purpose wireless network routing algorithms normally used to support agent communication. We show that incorporating organization knowledge (otherwise available only to the application layer) in the network-layer routing algorithm increases bandwidth available at the application layer by as much as 35 percent. This increased bandwidth is especially important in communication-intensive application settings, such as agent-based sensor networks, where node failures and link dynamics make providing sufficient inter-agent communication especially challenging.
Publication: Proceedings of Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2008), pp. 821 - 828
Editor: Padgham, Parkes, Müller and Parsons
Location: Estoril, Portugal
Publisher: IFAAMAS
Date: 2008
Sources: PDF: /Documents/zafar_aamas08.pdf
Notes: (Full paper; A longer version of this paper is available as UMass Tech Report #07-68)
Reference: Zafar, Huzaifa; Lesser, Victor; Corkill, Daniel; and Ganesan, Deepak. Using Organization Knowledge to Improve Routing Performance in Wireless Multi-Agent Networks. Proceedings of Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2008), Padgham, Parkes, Müller and Parsons, ed., IFAAMAS, pp. 821-828. 2008. (Full paper; A longer version of this paper is available as UMass Tech Report #07-68)
bibtex: 
@inproceedings{Zafar-444,
  author    = "Huzaifa Zafar and Victor Lesser and Daniel Corkill
               and Deepak Ganesan",
  title     = "{Using Organization Knowledge to Improve Routing
               Performance in Wireless Multi-Agent Networks}",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of Seventh International Conference on
               Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS
               2008)",
  editor    = "Parkes Padgham and Parsons Müller",
  publisher = "IFAAMAS",
  pages     = "821-828",
  year      = "2008",
  address   = "Estoril, Portugal",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/444",
}