Applicability of mobile agents to quality of service management for military digital avionics systems

Describes a general infrastructure to develop mobile Guardian Agent applications, which can provide increasingly complex functionality with acceptable levels of QoS for military digital avionics systems. Given that the Guardian Agent approach will be pursued as the de facto standard for integrating Joint Battlespace Infosphere (JBI)-like functionality on future and legacy military digital avionics systems, solutions must be developed to deal with the shift in computational complexity and load that needs to be accommodated by strategic assets or other potential host nodes. If such solutions are not developed, strategic assets could eventually become as resource constrained as their tactical counterparts.