While You´re Away: a system for load-balancing and resource sharing based on mobile agents

Author

Suri, Niranjan ; Groth, Paul T. ; Bradshaw, Jeffrey M.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Human & Machine Cognition, Univ. of West Florida, Pensacola, FL, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

470

Lastpage

473

Abstract

While You´re Away (WYA) is a distributed system that aggregates the computational power of individual computer systems. WYA introduces the notion of roaming computations-Java-based programs that move around the network utilizing the resources of idle workstations. WYA provides architectural independence and addresses issues of convenience, security and incentive for owners of workstations. WYA is based on the NOMADS mobile agent system, which uses the Aroma Virtual Machine (VM) to provide strong mobility, resource control, and resource accounting. WYA currently runs on Win32 and UNIX workstations but is being extended to work on other computational devices such as television set-top boxes, video game consoles, and Internet appliances

Keywords

Java; Unix; distributed programming; resource allocation; software agents; Aroma Virtual Machine; Internet; Java-based programs; NOMADS; UNIX; WYA; While You´re Away; Win32; data security; distributed system; idle workstations; load balancing; mobile agents; resource sharing; roaming computations; television set-top boxes; video game consoles; workstations; Aggregates; Computer networks; Control systems; Distributed computing; Mobile agents; Power system security; Resource management; Virtual machining; Virtual manufacturing; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2001. Proceedings. First IEEE/ACM International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Brisbane, Qld.

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1010-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCGRID.2001.923230

Filename

923230