Organization of Mobile Agents for Heterogeneous Network QoS Control Architecture

This paper will present a general architecture of a QoS control system for a heterogeneous network environment composed by digital TV return channel and interactive services delivery with end-to-end QoS requirements. The mobile agents of such architecture are organized in a hierarchy in which agents have some behavior and knowledge to deal with several kind of communication infrastructure service delivery characteristics. The paper presents the type of agents, its behaviors and processes in order to reach the objectives of QoS control architecture of SAMBA.