Cooperative Negotiation in a Multi-Agent System for Real-Time Load Balancing of a Mobile Cellular Network

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 568-575

  Bigham, John ^a   Du, Lin ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative negotiation; Load balancing; Multi agent systems; Real time systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PERFORMANCE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

COOPERATIVE NEGOTIATIONS; LOAD BALANCING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 1142305157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/860663.860666     Document Type: Conference Paper

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