Quantitative evaluation of communication traffic of mobile agents in distributed constraint satisfaction model

Author

Endo, Hiroto ; Noto, Masato ; Toyoshima, Hisamichi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Electron. & Information Eng., Kanagawa Univ., Yokohama, Japan

Volume

4

fYear

2004

fDate

10-13 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

3852

Abstract

A new software-structuring paradigm called the mobile agent technology is expected to be an important technology for reducing communication traffic from the software side. This technology features software objects called mobile agents. The use of a mobile agent can make communication delays very small by localizing the exchange of messages between two programs in one computer in cases that would otherwise require frequent communications between two computers. In this paper, we propose the use of mobile agents in a distributed constraint satisfaction model with the aim of reducing the load of communication traffic in distributed systems. We will present the empirical results obtained from simulations and discuss how agent mobility might affect overall performance in this model.

Keywords

constraint theory; mobile agents; operations research; telecommunication computing; telecommunication traffic; communication delays; communication traffic reduction; distributed constraint satisfaction model; distributed systems; mobile agents; quantitative evaluation; software-structuring paradigm; Broadband communication; Computational modeling; Costs; Delay; IP networks; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Personal digital assistants; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2004 IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8566-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1400945

Filename

1400945