Intelligent routing scheme in home networks

Abstract

Apart from ethernet, both wired and wireless technologies involved in home networking are prone to bandwidth fluctuations mostly due to interferences with others home devices or appliances. Channels characteristics are time variant and environment sensitive. Mobility and end devices density in a wireless cell may collapse available network resources. Therefore, quality of service provision for delay sensitive multimedia applications in such an unstable and dynamic network environment is important since there is no way to ensure that a reserved resource will maintain the required level of service over time. This paper presents an intelligent routing scheme based on the multi-agent system technology. Agents are embedded in nodes and cooperate to build alternatives routes. These routes are used as backup routes when those defined by the routing protocol become inadequate. © 2008 by International Federation for lnfonnation Processing.