This paper describes how to coordinate autonomous mobile multi-agents, whose agents stochastically move over a finite resource consisting of cells in accordance with transition probabilities. We assume there are interactions or coordination among agents such that (1) each agent cannot move to a destination cell occupied by agents more than the agents of a current cell and (2) their agents have ...

The recent development of telecommunication networks has contributed to the success of applications such as information retrieval and electronic commerce, as well as all the services that take advantage of communication in distributed systems. In this area, the emerging technology of mobile agents aroused considerable interest. Mobile agents are applications that can move through the network fo...

An architecture for large scale low power sensor network is proposed. Referred to as sensor networh with mobile agents (SENMA). SENMA exploit node redundancies by introducing mobile agents that communicate opportunistically with a largefreld of sensors. The addition of mobile agents shifIs computationally intensive t a s k awayfrom primitive sensors to more powerful mobile agents, which enables...

Over the last couple of years we have been working on the development of mobile agents systems and its application to the areas of telecommunications and network management. This work path produced positive results: a competitive mobile agent platform was built, the run-time benefits of mobile agents were proved, and our industrial partners have developed practical applications that are being i...

One of the recent paradigms in networked distributed computing is the use of mobile agents. Mobile agents are software robots that can autonomously migrate from node to node within a network. Although mobile agents can be easily implemented over a message passing network, they provide an abstraction for designing algorithms in a non-traditional way which can be quite natural for certain problem...

In the traditional centralized crawling techniques the pages from all over the web are brought to the search engine side which results a lot of unnecessary Internet traffic. In the distributed crawling with migrating agents, the mobile agent is send to the web server side that brings only required pages to the search engine side which reduces unnecessary overhead. The mobile (migrating) agents ...

We present here a framework together with a set of paradigms for mobile agent based active monitoring of network systems. In our framework mobile agents are used to perform remote information filtering and control functions. Such agents can detect basic events or correlate existing events that are stored in a database to enforce system policies. A system administrator can securely modify the mo...

Mobile agents are programs which ship themselves from one machine to another, at programmer defined points. Agents which move between machines, with their execution states, are said to perform strong migration. Such agents form an interesting paradigm for developing distributed applications. The key issue in strong migration is the transmission of execution states of agents. We propose STRING, ...

Network management of heterogeneous networks is still hard to achieve automatically and efficiently. In this study, we present a framework that has the ability to perform network management tasks on heterogeneous networks using mobile agents. This framework handles the inability of many network devices to run mobile agents. While the main focus of the project is the framework, we present an exa...

The use of mobile agents to manage networks provides an efficient paradigm shift from traditional client/server architecture. Mobile agents provide an intelligent automatic management of wide network nodes consuming less computer and network resources. In this paper, we propose a prototype system with a heterogeneous mobile agent pool. We introduce a heterogeneous agent pool – where different t...