Mobile agent location management: a comparison between CORBA and P2P based systems

Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology has arisen as a simple and user-friendly mechanism not relying on a central server. In this paper an attempt to exploit this emerging technology in the area of centralization in a local region with flexibility of P2P mechanism on a broader level. The implementation of the proposed approach, which has been built on top of the MAP agent system, is compared with more traditional techniques for agent location, based on a naming service. Comparisons between the two approaches are presented together with some hints helping to identify the best approach in each considered scenario.