On the implementation of an agent-migration protocol

This paper presents a novel agent-migration protocol developed in the IMAGO system. The IMAGO (intelligent mobile agent gliding on-line) system is an infrastructure for mobile agent (MA) applications. The major feature of this system is that it is capable of coping with both agent migration and interagent communication by deploying a simple, reliable agent migration protocol. This paper will focus on the protocol stack as well as its implementation -a multithreaded, versatile scheduler that associates threads of control with the dataflow rather than the instruction flow.