Title :
A hierarchical mapping scheme for mobile agent systems
Author :
Fukuda, Munehiro ; Bic, Lubomir F. ; Dillencourt, Michael B. ; Merchant, Fehmina
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Irvine, CA, USA
Abstract :
MESSENGERS is a system for general-purpose distributed computing based on the principles of mobile agents. Its underlying infrastructure consists of a collection of daemon processes, whose task it is to receive incoming agents, provide the necessary environment for their execution, and send them on to their next destinations as dictated by their behaviors. The structure of the daemon processes and their mapping onto the physical network is the main subject of this paper. Given the autonomous nature of each computation, the mapping problem is very different from those implemented for systems of communicating processes. At the same time, it offers new opportunities for solving the problems of load balancing, dynamic resource utilization, and trade-offs between computation granularity and communication overhead
Keywords :
distributed processing; software agents; utility programs; MESSENGERS; antonomous objects; communication overhead; computation granularity; daemon processes; dynamic resource utilization; general-purpose distributed computing; hierarchical mapping scheme; incoming agents; intelligent message; load balancing; mobile agent systems; physical network; self-migrating threads; Computer networks; Computer science; Intelligent agent; Intelligent networks; Load management; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Resource management; Terminology; Yarn;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 1997., Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Future Trends of
Conference_Location :
Tunis
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8153-5
DOI :
10.1109/FTDCS.1997.644705
