The 'Two-Hop Principle':Stability of MAS in Communications Networks

摘要

A joint university / industry collaboration is investigating the deployment of MAS technology to manage wireless communications networks. These systems are very large and are situated in a chaotic environment which suggests the use of distributed intelligent control that aims to continually improve, whilst not expecting to optimise, network performance. A key problem is ensuring the stability of these large, distributed control systems. A sequence of management systems have been developed over four years from which we have abstracted our 'two-hop principle'. We conjecture that the principle has wider application to mul-tiagent network management systems. The generic principle is described and experiments are reported to illustrate the stability observed.