Agent-based multimedia communications on Internet

Author

Karmouch, A. ; Horlait, E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

24-28 May 1998

Firstpage

734

Abstract

Mobile agents have emerged as a new paradigm for communications and are proving to be more flexible than the average client in the client-server model. In the mobile agent architecture a script or program is sent to the remote severs to be executed, therefore taking advantage of the servers´ resources and operating closer to the services. We describe an agent-based architecture suitable for the multimedia applications. This architecture is composed of user agent, service agent and a mobile agent that travels the network to perform tasks on behalf of a user or an application. The results gathered by the mobile agent are presented to the user by means of a rendering system based on a real-time transport protocol (RTP)

Keywords

Internet; client-server systems; multimedia communication; software agents; software architecture; transport protocols; Internet; RTP; agent-based architecture; agent-based multimedia communications; client-server model; mobile agent architecture; program; real-time transport protocol; remote severs; rendering system; script; service agent; user agent; Application software; Computer architecture; IP networks; Internet; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Multimedia communication; Network servers; Software agents; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1998. IEEE Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Waterloo, Ont.

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4314-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.1998.685602

Filename

685602