Mobile Agents are considered an interesting technology to develop applications for distributed systems. Thus they present features, such as autonomy and capability to roam to hosts, process data, and save remote communications. Many mobile agent platforms have been developed for research purposes while other platforms have been deployed as commercial products. Some platforms have been outdated;...

This paper presents a framework for building network protocols for migrating mobile agents over a network. The framework allows network protocols for agent migration to be naturally implemented within mobile agents and to be constructed in a hierarchy as most data transmission protocols are. These protocols are given as mobile agents and they can transmit other mobile agents to remote hosts as ...

In what application domains do mobile agents have potential deployment? I basically see three different domains. One is data-intensive applications where the data is remotely located, is owned by the remote service provider, and the user has specialized needs. Here, the user sends an agent to the server storing the data. The second domain is where agents are launched by an appliance—for example...

In this study, the authors address a mobile web agent framework based on stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) to overcome the deficiencies, which the typical mobile web agent framework based on transmission control protocol (TCP) suffers from, such as performance degradation, head-of-line blocking and unsupported mobility in mobile wireless environment. The proposed SCTP-based mobile web...

Friendliness on user interfaces has been mostly forgot in mobile agent research. In fact the multitude of problems that have to be solved have left this more “simple” piece of the package out of target. However, the success of technology comes also from this important layer in the product development. This paper describes an application that integrates monitoring data from the mobile agents env...

g e y w o r d s M o b i l e agents, Dwell time, Life span, Report statistics, Behavior. 1. I N T R O D U C T I O N Mobile agents are self-executable programs tha t t ravel a round a network doing work [1]. The ana ly t ica l model ing and solution of models of mobile agent behavior is in its infancy. This paper presents fundamenta l analyt ica l models to i l lus t ra te the rich s t ruc ture o...

To enhance scalability of replicated services a large number of mobile agents attempt to access in mobile agent systems, we present a new strategy to apply an appropriate passive replication mechanism to each replicated service according to its execution behavior because deterministic services require weaker constraints to ensure their consistency than non-deterministic ones. For this goal, two...

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The provision of location tracking for mobile agents is designed to deliver a message to a moving object in a network. Most tracking methods exploit relay stations that hold location information to forward messages to a target mobile agent. In this paper, we propose an efficient location tracking method for mobile agents using the domain-based proxy as a relay station. The proxy in each domain ...