RECONFIGURABLE EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT: AN AGENT-BASED FRAMEWORK

摘要

Recent trends on wireless technologies as well as on software progress make the reconfiguration of wireless terminals not only an interesting feature but also an achievable one. This paper presents the motivation leading to the need of reconfigurable equipment management. A simple architecture of such equipment is given to allow the reconfiguration and its management. This architecture is based on the use of communicating agents, which provides a way for negotiating the appropriate configuration between the network and the terminal as well as easy context discovery or autonomous decision handling. Experiments based on a prototype shows that this agent-based approach is a good candidate for managing fully reconfigurable systems.