A Reliable Communication Protocol for Multiregion Mobile Agent Environments

Author

Choi, SungJin ; Baik, MaengSoon ; Kim, HongSoo ; Byun, EunJoung ; Choo, Hyunseung

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. & Commun. Eng., Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon, South Korea

Volume

21

Issue

1

fYear

2010

Firstpage

72

Lastpage

85

Abstract

A mobile agent system is regarded as an attractive technology when developing distributed applications. However, mobility makes it more difficult to trace agents. It is also more complex for agents to communicate with each other in a reliable manner. Therefore, a reliable communication protocol is necessary to control and monitor mobile agents and deliver messages between them. In this paper, a new reliable communication protocol (RCP) is proposed for a multiregion mobile agent computing environment. RCP is implemented on the ODDUGI mobile agent system. Analysis and evaluation show that RCP fulfills the following design goals: reliability, asynchrony, timeliness, location dependency, scalability, and communication cost.

Keywords

mobile agents; mobile computing; protocols; ODDUGI mobile agent system; distributed applications; multiregion mobile agent computing environment; reliable communication protocol; Application software; Communication system control; Computer Society; Java; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Scalability; Mobile agents; communication; location management; message delivery; reliability.;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1045-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPDS.2009.48

Filename

4803833