Title :
On the use of IP multicast to facilitate group communication between mobile agents
Author :
Shah, Syed Waqar ; Nixon, P. ; Ferguson, R.I.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, UK
Abstract :
The use of multiple agents (in patterns such as master-slave and embassy) as stated in S. C. Hayden et al. (1999) is a common technique in agent-based systems. Maintaining coordination and communication between groups of agents, whilst relatively simple in the non-distributed paradigm, can impose a significant overhead on the developers of distributed/mobile agent systems. We report the design, implementation, and evaluation of a group communications mechanism for multiple agents systems.
Keywords :
mobile agents; multi-agent systems; multicast communication; telecommunication computing; IP multicast; agent communication; agent coordination; agent-based systems; distributed agent systems; group communication; mobile agents; multiple agents systems; Delay; Message passing; Middleware; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Poles and towers; Real time systems; Resilience; Sensor systems; Telecommunication traffic;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Agent Technology, 2004. (IAT 2004). Proceedings. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2101-0
DOI :
10.1109/IAT.2004.1343002
