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RP-LIP6-2003-07-01

Agent-Based Simulation For Networks
2002 Summer Computer Simulation Conference (SCSCNULL02)
Lecarpentier Hugues, Gaiti Dominique and Pujolle Guy
San Diego, California US Grant, July, 2002
Anglais - 6 p - Abstract
Since several years, communication networks have known a surprising growth. The increased number of users and the consequent increase of traffic, the request for new services involve the development of new technologies and the deployment of high throughput networks. Networking technology has correspondingly grown to meet the diverse needs of applications and network administration. In front of the complexity of communication networks, simulation was and remains the only way to evaluate network performance. Unfortunately, traditional simulation methods are not adapted to all networks such as networks with quality of service and the network dynamic aspect. Moreover, as the technique is still at its incipient state, simulations prove to be the only effective mechanism to study and analyze them. In this paper, we propose a method based on the behavioral simulation adapted to the dynamic networks. The behavioral approach aims to model through a multi-agents approach the dynamic aspect of networks and to simplify the design and management of this kind of networks. Multi-agents simulation is well adapted to sciences known as non-exact sciences. This method is thus adapted to next generation networks, with their dynamic and evolutionary aspects, because dynamic aspect is not taken into account in traditional approaches.