A hybrid approach to reliability estimation of mobile agent-based systems

Author

Daoud, Mosaab ; Mahmoud, Qusay H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Guelph Univ., Ont.

fYear

2005

fDate

1-4 May 2005

Firstpage

1344

Lastpage

1350

Abstract

In this paper we analytically analyze the reliability of mobile agent-based systems. We define the reliability of a mobile agent in terms of the processor execution time required to perform agent´s tasks at each processing node and the transmission (communication) time needed to transfer the agent from one processing node to another via a network to complete the mission. The failure of entire components causes failure of the agent. Simulation experiments have been conducted using stochastic Petri Nets modeling. We investigate the effect of different component reliability and availability models (processors and links) on the system throughput. The results we have obtained demonstrate the impact of different reliability and availability models on the system throughput

Keywords

Petri nets; mobile agents; reliability; stochastic processes; hybrid approach; mobile agent-based systems; processor execution time; reliability estimation; stochastic Petri Nets modeling; system throughput; Availability; Information analysis; Information science; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Petri nets; Stochastic processes; Telecommunication network reliability; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2005. Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Saskatoon, Sask.

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8885-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2005.1557226

Filename

1557226