DocumentCode :
3247786
Title :
A Framework for Mobile Agent Systems with the Capability of Preceding and Following Users
Author :
Yokohira, Tokumi ; Okayama, Kiyohiko ; Murakami, Takashi ; Takarako, Kayo
Author_Institution :
Graduate Sch. of Natural Sci. & Technol., Okayama Univ.
fYear :
2005
fDate :
10-10 Nov. 2005
Firstpage :
89
Lastpage :
94
Abstract :
As one of mobile agent applications, many systems which provide continuous service for users moving on a network have been proposed. In these systems, because a movement of mobile agents is performed after a user movement, users must wait for arrival of mobile agents. To reduce users´ waiting time, we propose a fundamental framework for mobile agent systems where an agent can move precedently before a user movement, in our framework, it is assumed that computers are connected on a network and users with rewritable devices move on the network. The framework supports precedent movement of mobile agents based on prediction using movement history of users. Because the prediction may be wrong, the framework also provides the following movement of mobile agents. Moreover, the framework provides a recovery method of mobile agents in service in case that mobile agents disappear due to problems such as their bugs. Because we provide some APIs, via which various functions of our framework are accessed, developers of mobile agent systems can easily use our framework using the APIs. We implemented an experimental agent system using the APIs and confirmed that the framework performed correctly using the experimental system
Keywords :
application program interfaces; computer networks; mobile agents; API; mobile agent systems; movement history; recovery method; user movement; waiting time; Application software; Computer bugs; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Electronic mail; History; Image processing; Information technology; Mobile agents; RFID tags;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Information and Telecommunication Technologies, 2005. APSITT 2005 Proceedings. 6th Asia-Pacific Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Yangon
Print_ISBN :
4-88552-216-1
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/APSITT.2005.203636
Filename :
1593443
Link To Document :
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