Formal Development of Hierarchical Agent-Based Monitoring Systems for Dynamically Reconfigurable NoC Platforms

Agent-Based Monitoring System For Noc Platforms

The design of an agent-based monitoring and reconfiguration system requires special means to monitor the state of a system and take proper actions if inadequacies occur. Such means are usually implemented as agents (Rantala, Isoaho, & Tenhunen, 2007). When the number of functions performed by agents and/or the number of agents grows, it is reasonable to have a hierarchy of the agents, especially for a large-scale NoC platform. Generally, the hierarchy of the agents has a three-level structure as illustrated in Figure 1 (Yin, 2009).