The growth of both computer communication such as the Internet, and the computational power of computers makes multimedia applications possible for common use. However, some significant problems still remained unsolved, e.g., the efficient use of resources and the dynamic control of applications for satisfying the users' required QoS. To solve these problems, we propose an agent based approach to realize flexible multimedia communication based on the ADIPS Framework. We explain the cooperation protocols used in our flexible video conference system and also demonstrate the flexibility in terms of QoS control achieved by agent cooperation.
['Takuo Suganuma', 'Tetsuo Kinoshita', 'Kenji Sugawara', 'Norio Shiratori']
Cooperation protocols for multimedia communication network based on ADIPS framework