Inter-Agent Communication Protocol for Adaptive Agents

International Journal for Research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology, 2017

Mobile agents are an imminent technology for developing applications in mobile, distributed and pervasive computing. They offer a broad spectrum of features like autonomy; migrate to remote computers and process data to save remote connections. Mobile agents can be applied to a broad domain: network management, sensor network, grid computing, web services, and data mining. Numerous mobile agent systems have been developed, while some have been outdated and no longer in use others are in a continuous process of development, offering a variety of features. With the introduction of new computing platforms, to take advantage of mobile agent technology one must develop distributed applications that can cater to the needs. In this survey paper, we evaluate some of the existing mobile agent systems.

Proceedings of the Thirty-First Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Objects are reactive in the sense that they change state only when one of their methods is invoked by other objects. Reactive objects are sufficient in a client-server model of computation with a remote invocation mechanism " a la RPC". However, active objects are much more powerful mainly because they are autonomous entities. Epidaure's objects are a particular type of active objects from which multi-agent systems can be built. In the context of mobility, migration becomes a necessity. For instance, a mobile client may disconnect from its server and reconnect to another server at a later time. In this paper, we describe in a detailed manner the communication mechanism of a particular multi-agent system, Epidaure, and how the communication algorithm and mobility protocols that we developed can be applied to address problems related to mobile objects (e.g., registration, transport, tracking,. . .).

New technologies are required to face new scenarios due to the fast spread of the Internet. The paper surveys the current trends of the emerging mobile agent technology. In a high-connected world, agents are the active entities, which roam across network nodes on behalf of their senders. We show some applications that can take advantages from the mobile agent approach. The paper presents the relevant aspects of coordination and security, which are currently discussed in the mobile agent community, pointing out open research directions.

Journal of Systems Architecture, 2000

The recent development of telecommunication networks has contributed to the success of applications such as information retrieval and electronic commerce, as well as all the services that take advantage of communication in distributed systems. In this area, the emerging technology of mobile agents aroused considerable interest. Mobile agents are applications that can move through the network for carrying out a given task on behalf of the user. In this work we present a platform (called MAP (Mobile Agents Platform)) for the development and the management of mobile agents. The language used both for developing the platform and for carrying out the agents is Java. The platform gives the user all the basic tools needed for creating some applications based on the use of agents. It enables us to create, run, suspend, resume, deactivate, reactivate local agents, to stop their execution, to make them communicate each other and migrate.

2011

We examine the applicability of mobile software codes to perform networking tasks in wireless and mobile computing environments. We contend that the advent of wireless technologies during the past decade has turned computer networks increasingly complex to manage. In particular, factors such as context awareness and user mobility are now crucial in the design of communications protocols used by portable devices with moderate to severe bandwidth and battery power limitations. Unlike hard-coded communication protocols that fulfill a specific need, mobile software agents can be deployed to deal with a range of tasks and can be designed to efficiently adapt to diverse circumstances. We present our latest advancements in the areas of mobile ad hoc networking and wireless sensor networks using mobile agents (MAs). We also elaborate on the importance of engineering an efficient migration strategy as the single most distinctive

Oriental journal of computer science and technology

Distributed structure of programming and computing has evolved in all facets of development and spawned a new era of distributed computing. In these structures, the isolated processing nodes have been networked to form a powerful processing and communication device. Now, they need an integrated infrastructure for communication that is capable of providing and developing strong and secure mobility features. The mobile agent technology is becoming a promising solution for widely distributed systems like the Internet. Mobile agent based infrastructure is capable of forming migratory environment efficiently using the network resources. The mobile agent is software code capable of moving closer to the required resource in contrast to systems that incorporate the mobility of non-executable code only. It is also required for various agent-oriented languages to support architectural heterogeneity and less or no dependency on the previous system once an agent is transmitted to another system...

Proceedings. 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. Workshops on Electronic Commerce and Web-based Applications. Middleware

We devise a mobile agent middleware architecture for supporting distributed applications in a wide-area network. The architecture provides a structural framework for functional components that are needed to support mobile agents in asymmetric networking environments.

In this paper, we discuss the evolution of distributed computing paradigms, emphasizing the advantages the mobile agents provide if used in a distributed application. A general framework for intelligent mobile agents is then presented, containing agent-dedicated servers, mobile working agents and static knowledge base agents. We then discuss the differences between state-based and event-driven behavior of the agents.

International Conference on Wireless Networks, 2009

The next generation of computers will be em- bossed by ubiquitous systems. The computer will disappear behind daily artifacts and will support people in their everyday life. Context information from real environment will be gathered by sensors which can communicate wired or wireless with other ubiquitous devices. Developing services on basis of sensor nodes and limited devices is an arduous

2002

Sriraman, Sandhya, An Annotated Bibliography of Mobile Agents in Networks. Master of Science (Computer Science), December 2002, 254 pp., 2 tables, 34 figures, 212 titles. The purpose of this thesis is to present a comprehensive colligation of applications of mobile agents in networks, and provide a baseline association of these systems. This work has been motivated by the fact that mobile agent systems have been deemed proficuous alternatives in system applications. Several mobile agent systems have been developed to provide scalable and cogent solutions in network-centric applications. This thesis examines some existing mobile agent systems in core networking areas, in particular, those of network and resource management, routing, and the provision of fault tolerance and security. The inherent features of these systems are discussed with respect to their specific functionalities. The applicability and efficacy of mobile agents are further considered in the specific areas mentioned above. Although an initial foray into a collation of this nature, the goal of this annotated bibliography is to provide a generic referential view of mobile agent systems in network applications.