Future communication services: Application enablement and the role of software agent architectures
✍ Scribed by Abdulsalam Yassine
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 147 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1089-7089
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✦ Synopsis
The emerging area of Application Enablement addresses challenging issues by trying to identify novel flexible network architectures and by conceiving novel conceptual and practical tools for the design, development, and execution of such applications. The aim here is to outline the possible relationship between Application Enablement in communication services research and ongoing work in the area of multi-agent systems. In particular, this letter shows that current research into software agents and multi-agent systems can effectively extend the dichotomy between self-adaptive and selforganizing approaches and potentially play a major role in inspiring and advancing the whole area of Application Enablement in communication services. © 2011 Alcatel-Lucent.
services. The complexity here arises from a number of different aspects.
Interoperability
The ever-increasing diversity of involved entities (hardware and software) is expected to grow exponentially. Heterogeneity in computing technologies arises from the coexistence of several and diverse communication technologies such as Long Term Evolution (LTE), Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), or Bluetooth* and communication devices embedded in home appliances, micro computer sensors, and high-end computers. The distributed and heterogeneous nature of such entities means that interoperability is necessary, and so is a common and standardized interface that translates users' needs and resource availability to a common