Adaptive Communication Agent for Group Communication activities

Sakkaravarthi Ramanathan (1) , Khalil Drira (1) , Christophe Chassot (1) , Thierry Desprats (2, 3) , Michelle Sibilla (4)

1 LAAS-SARA - Équipe Services et Architectures pour Réseaux Avancés
2 IRIT-SIERA - Service IntEgration and netwoRk Administration
3 UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
4 IRIT - Institut de recherche en informatique de Toulouse

In group-wide collaborative environment, managing the adaptive communication is a challenging task. It implies the monitoring of sudden change in the activities while providing a solution to maintain the connection with the available resources. In this work, we design a software agent that supports autonomic computing to ensure reliable communications among the mobile devices and Autonomous Ground vehicles (AAV). This issue is addressed in the context of save and rescue missions carried out during natural disasters such as floods and forest fires by human and voluntary operators within the framework of wireless environment. The paper focuses the autonomic functionalities of the components used to monitor, analyze, plan, and execute the adaptive mechanisms in case of evolution (mission/environment). We distribute this agent among devices and vehicles to ensure the adaptive task and it is tackled by using appropriate policies used to select the decision and executed without manual intervention. This research is applied to a Crisis Management System (CMS) within the context of the French RTRA project (ROSACE).

Mots clés: Communication; Software Agent; Autonomic computing

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Sakkaravarthi Ramanathan, Khalil Drira, Christophe Chassot, Thierry Desprats, Michelle Sibilla. Adaptive Communication Agent for Group Communication activities. International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Infrastructures (WETICE 2012), Jun 2012, Toulouse, France. pp. 391-393. ⟨hal-00675208⟩