Service negotiation over wireless mesh networks : an approach based on economic agents

Abstract

The increasing interest in wireless mesh network technology and its popularity leads to the vision that we are going to have a wireless cover almost ubiquitous in urban areas. Nevertheless, how will be negotiated these networks services? This article propose a solution to the negotiation of network services using autonomous agents based on simple machine learning techniques combined to economic theories which provides a rationality, even limited, in an autonomous behavior. The results obtained demonstrate that services negotiation done in indiscriminate ways may cause network resources loss of quality and productivity and that measuring actions avoid these problems.