Agent cooperation in multi-agent based network management

Network Management based on intelligent agent is motivated by the development of distributed network management. This paper provides a multi-agent based network management framework, which presents multiagent collaboration environment. In the framework established in this paper, we propose a task decomposition module to decompose network management tasks into several parallel network management sub-tasks, and then provide multi-agent cooperation methods for multi-agent system considering the characteristic of network management function. Decreasing tasks execution time and agent migration times is the aim of the method proposed in this paper.