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Int. J. Communications, Network and System Sciences, 2011, 4, 727-734 doi:10.4236/ijcns.2011.411089 Published Online November 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ijcns) Distributed Frequency Assignment Using Hierarchical * Cooperative Multi-Agent System Jamal Elhachmi, Zouhair Guenoun Laboratory of Electronics and Telecommunications, Mohammadia School of Engineers (EMI), Rabat, Morocco E-mail : Jamal_elhachimi@, zouhair@emi.ac.ma Received June 21, 2011; revised July 20, 2011; accepted August 11, 2011 Abstract Recent demand for wireless communication continues to grow rapidly as a result of the increasing number of users, the emergence of new user requirements, and the trend to new access technologies. At the same time, the electromagnetic spectrum or frequencies allocated for this purpose are still limited. This makes solving the frequency assignment problem more and more critical. In this paper, a new approach is proposed using self-organizing multi-agent systems to solve distributed dynamic channel-assignment; it concerns distribu- tion among agents which task is to assign personal station to frequencies with respect to well known con- straints. Agents only know their variables and the constraints affecting them, and have to negotiate to find a collective solution. The approach is based on a macro-level management taking the form of a hierarchical group of distributed agents in the network and handling all RANs (Regional Radio Access Network) in a lo- calized region regardless of the operating band. The approach defines cooperative self-organization as the process leading the collective to the solution: agents can change the organization by their own decision to improve the state of the system. Our app