Mobile Agent technology has become a new paradigm for distributed real-time systems because of their inherent advantages. In any distributed system, along with other issues, survivability and fault tolerance are vital issues for deploying Mobile Agent for real applications. All Mobile Agent based applications face reliability problems due to the failure of agent platform, host and communication...

We model a mobile agent system with a formalism called agent-oriented G-net. In this system, intelligent mobile agents (IMA) and intelligent facilitator agent (IFA) on an agent virtual machine (AVM) are viewed as communicating agents. Based on the communication protocols they follow, we design the intelligent mobile agent and intelligent facilitator agent as software entities that can communica...

Growing recognition of the benefits of mobile agents in distributed systems, such as military C4ISR, has led to a proliferation of mobile agent systems. However, incompatibilities between proprietary systems prevent the greater potential benefits of ubiquitous mobile agent computing. In particular, agents cannot migrate to a host that runs a different mobile-agent system. Prior approaches to in...

In a very simple form a Mobile Agent is an independent piece of code that has mobility and autonomy behavior. One of the main advantages of using Mobile Agent in a network is it reduces network traffic load. In an, ad hoc network Mobile Agent can be used to protect the network by using agent based IDS or IPS. Besides, to deploy dynamic software in the network or to retrieve information from net...

Migration of an agent involves various security problems especially in heterogeneous environment. Most of the reviewed studies for securing the mobile agent depended on one security technique. The proposed model integrates well known security techniques in four security levels: securing Mobile Agent Using Agent Factory & Blueprint, securing Mobile Agent Blueprint, securing Mobile Agent Migratio...

In this paper, we propose a method of reducing data traffic on mobile agent migration. Mobile agents are able to simplify network programming with autonomous process migration as compared with inter-process communication. However, mobile agents increase data traffic by transfer of program codes when migration. Therefore, many researchers have proposed for reducing data traffic on mobile agent s...

A mobile agent is an autonomous software program, which can be executed in different agent platforms for a specific task on behalf of a customer. Security is one of the key issues for mobile agent technology while the mobile agents are applied to the developments of e-commerce. Therefore, this paper focuses on a mobile agent authentication scheme for safeguarding mobile agent platforms or hosts...

Mobile agent has motivated the creation of a new methodology for parallel computing. We introduce a methodology for the creation of parallel applications on the network. The proposed Mobile-Agent parallel processing framework uses multiple Javamobile Agents. Each mobile agent can travel to the specified machine in the network to perform its tasks. We also introduce the concept of master agent, ...