A distributed architecture for cooperative management of strategic communication networks

The authors developed a testbed for cooperative distributed problem solving, Testbed Environment for Autonomous Multiagent Cooperative Problem Solving (TEAM-CPS), and successfully applied it to public telephony networks. This paper discusses an extension of this work to military strategic defense systems (SDS). A conceptual SDS model is described. It includes distributed network managers that must cooperatively allocate bandwidth to computer applications in support of critical pre-engagement missile defense functions.<
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