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

fYear

1998

fDate

17-19 Jun 1998

Firstpage

243

Lastpage

248

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ENABL.1998.725700

Filename

725700