Title :
Design issues in mobile agent programming systems
Author :
Karnik, Neeran M. ; Tripathi, Anand R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA
Abstract :
The article discusses system-level issues and agent programming requirements that arise in the design of mobile agent systems. The authors describe several mobile agent systems to illustrate different approaches designers have taken in addressing these challenges. The following areas are discussed: agent mobility, naming, security issues, privacy and integrity, authentication, authorization and access control, metering and charging mechanisms, programming primitives, agent communication and synchronization primitives, agent monitoring and control primitives, and fault tolerance primitives
Keywords :
authorisation; client-server systems; data privacy; naming services; parallel programming; access control; agent communication; agent mobility; agent monitoring; agent programming requirements; authentication; authorization; charging mechanisms; control primitives; design issues; fault tolerance primitives; integrity; metering; mobile agent programming systems; mobile agent systems design; naming; privacy; programming primitives; security issues; synchronization primitives; system-level issues; Access control; Authentication; Authorization; Communication system control; Communication system security; Fault tolerance; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Privacy;
Journal_Title :
Concurrency, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/4434.708256
