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The self-organisation of telecommunications networks has to confront the two challenges of the scalability and the stability of the solution. This paper describes a distributed, co-operative multiagent system in which agents make decisions based only on local knowledge — that guarantees scalability. Extensive simulations indicate that stability is ensured by the agent’s making improvements to the network settings that improve the social performance for all agents in a two-hop range. Our overall goal is simply to reduce maintenance costs for such networks by removing the need for humans to tune the network settings.
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Debenham, J., Prodan, A. (2009). A Multiagent System for Self-organisation of an 802.11 Mesh Network. In: Mařík, V., Strasser, T., Zoitl, A. (eds) Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing. HoloMAS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5696. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03668-2_24
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