Title :
A mobile-floating agent scheme for wireless distributed computing
Author :
Liu, George Y. ; Danne, A. ; Marlevi, A. ; Maguire, G.Q., Jr.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Syst. Res., Ericsson Radio Syst., Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract :
This paper presents a novel mobile floating (MF) agent scheme for supporting global distributed mobile computing. The principal contribution of this paper is to innovatively apply virtual memory concepts to mobile systems by deploying MF-agents to decouple the service and resource from the underlying network and move around following or proceeding their mobile users. The MF-agents maintain data structures associated with a mobile user. By combining the mobile-floating agent functionality with a predictive mobility management algorithm, services and user data may be pre-connected and pre-assigned at the locations or cells to which the user is moving. Thus, the user can immediately receive services of maintain their data structures with virtually the same efficiency as at the previous location
Keywords :
cellular radio; data communication; data structures; distributed processing; knowledge based systems; land mobile radio; software agents; telecommunication computing; telecommunication network management; cellular radio; data structures; mobile floating agent; mobile systems; mobile user; predictive mobility management algorithm; services; user data; virtual memory; wireless distributed computing; Computer networks; Data structures; Distributed computing; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Mobile radio mobility management; Portable computers; Prediction algorithms; Proposals; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 1995. PIMRC'95. Wireless: Merging onto the Information Superhighway., Sixth IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Toronto, Ont.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3002-1
DOI :
10.1109/PIMRC.1995.476412
