Enhanced communication scheme for mobile agents

Mobile agent technology is a promising field which has a great scope in the areas of networking, distributed systems and grid systems. The frequent movement of the agents poses challenges for the design of an efficient communication protocol for mobile agents. In this paper we propose an improved communication scheme for mobile agents which overcomes the following issues. First, the problem of overloading of the agent is solved by provision for generating a twin agent when required. Also urgent messages are given priority by using a message queue which sorts the messages according to priority frequently. Our scheme also provides a mechanism for the mobile agent to automatically update itself according to the environmental changes in a predictable and visible manner. Also it reduces the resource overhead over the network dynamically by temporarily destroying the idle agents and reconstructing them when needed.