The choice of using a centralized or a decentralized approach largely depends on the routing strategy used in the domain. If a link state routing approach such as OSPF or IS-IS is used, a centralized ap- proach
No agent possesses a global vision of the system and the decisions are taken in a totally decentralized way; Autonomous Agents for Self-managed MPLS DiffServ-TE Domain 123 Reactivity. One of the basic attributes of an agent is to be situated (situadness, [8]). That is, an agent is a...
A distributed database system controlled by a centralized database management system is limited for a number of reasons. The fact that a central master controls management functions leads to temporary unavailability if the master fails, even if the master is fault-tolerant. Also, problems such as...