The study comparatively identified the benefits of mobile telephone to users in selected rural and urban locations in Obio/Akpor local government area of Rivers State, Nigeria. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used in selecting 60 rural and 60 urban phone users to have a total sample size of 120 respondents. Structured questionnaire was used to generate data that were analy...

This paper focuses on behavior analysis on mobile agents used in network routing. We describe a general agent-based routing model and classify it into two cases based on the reaction of mobile agents to a system failure, namely mobile agents with weak reaction capability (MWRC) and mobile agents with strong reaction capability (MSRC). For each case, we analyze the probability of success (the pr...

This paper proposes a framework for which agents can be used for providing web services to mobile users. It describes a set of obliging agents distributed over different sites that work together to provide web services for mobile users. Mobile agents are programs dispatched from a client mobile device to the server to achieve a task. This is much more dynamic than client-server paradigm in whic...

This paper presents a framework for mobile agents. The framework is unique among other mobile agent systems in structuring mobile agents hierarchically. The framework provides the notion of agent hierarchy, in which each mobile agent can be a container of other mobile agents. We construct a prototype implementation of this framework. It is built on the Java language and mobile agents are given ...

This paper presents a theoretical and practical framework for constructing and reasoning about mobile agents. The framework is formulated as a process calculus and has two contributions. One of the contributions can model not only individual mobile agents but also a group of mobile agents because the calculus allows more than one mobile agent to be dynamically organized into a single mobile age...