Title :
A scalable location tracking and message delivery scheme for mobile agents
Author :
Lazar, Sashi ; Weerakoon, Ishan ; Sidhu, Deepinder
Author_Institution :
Center for Telecommun. Res., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA
Abstract :
We present a novel scheme to implement reliable message delivery, agent migration, and agent location tracking for mobile agent based systems. This scheme requires that the agents and messages are transmitted through an imposed logical tree-shaped hierarchy of runtime servers. We present the procedures for building and maintaining the domain gateway hierarchy. Using this scheme, the cost of locating an agent is asymptotically bound by O(lg n) on the number of hops, while the agent registration is achieved at no additional cost
Keywords :
message passing; object-oriented programming; software agents; trees (mathematics); agent location tracking; agent migration; agent registration; domain gateway hierarchy; logical tree; mobile agent based systems; mobile agents; reliable message delivery; runtime servers; scalable location tracking; Computer science; Costs; Government; Logic; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Network servers; Personal digital assistants; Runtime environment;
Conference_Titel :
Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 1998. (WET ICE '98) Proceedings., Seventh IEEE International Workshops on
Conference_Location :
Stanford, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8751-7
DOI :
10.1109/ENABL.1998.725700
