Impossibility of distributed consensus with one faulty process
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Communications of the ACM
Seven good reasons for mobile agents
Communications of the ACM
Java-based and secure learning agents for information retrieval in distributed systems
Information Sciences—Informatics and Computer Science: An International Journal
Mobile agents and the future of the internet
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Technical opinion: The real challenges of mobile agents
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A survey of rollback-recovery protocols in message-passing systems
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Fault-Tolerant Mobile Agent Execution
IEEE Transactions on Computers
FANTOMAS: Fault Tolerance for Mobile Agents in Clusters
IPDPS '00 Proceedings of the 15 IPDPS 2000 Workshops on Parallel and Distributed Processing
Cross-Entropy Guided Ant-Like Agents Finding Cyclic Paths in Scarcely Meshed Networks
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An Approach for Mobile Agent Security and Fault Tolerance using Distributed Transactions
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An Approach for Providing Mobile Agent Fault Tolerance
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FATOMAS-A Fault-Tolerant Mobile Agent System Based on the Agent-Dependent Approach
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Updating ACO Pheromones Using Stochastic Gradient Ascent and Cross-Entropy Methods
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Analysis on a Mobile Agent-Based Algorithm for Network Routing and Management
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Mobile agents in distributed network management
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Security and Reliability in Concordia
HICSS '98 Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 7 - Volume 7
A Fault-Tolerant Protocol for Providing the Exactly-Once Property of Mobile Agents
SRDS '98 Proceedings of the The 17th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
Modeling Fault-Tolerant Mobile Agent Execution as a Sequence of Agreement Problems
SRDS '00 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
The Performance of Checkpointing and Replication Schemes for Fault Tolerant Mobile Agent Systems
SRDS '02 Proceedings of the 21st IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
Evaluating Distributed Checkpointing Protocol
ICDCS '03 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Mobile Agent Fault Tolerance for Information Retrieval Applications: An Exception Handling Approach
ISADS '03 Proceedings of the The Sixth International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS'03)
A Reliable Mobile Agents Architecture
ISORC '98 Proceedings of the The 1st IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing
A Dynamic Shadow Approach for Mobile Agents to Survive Crash Failures
ISORC '03 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing
On Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Mobile Agents: Motivations and State-of-the-Art Systems
Mobile Agents: Motivations and State-of-the-Art Systems
NAP: Practical Fault-Tolerance for Itinerant Computations
ICDCS '99 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
New analysis on mobile agents based network routing
Design and application of hybrid intelligent systems
Coordinated enroute multimedia object caching in transcoding proxies for tree networks
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP)
Optimal methods for coordinated enroute web caching for tree networks
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
Mobile agents for network management
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
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The exponential expansion of the Internet and the widespread popularity of the World Wide Web give a challenge to experts on reliable and secure system design, e.g., e-economy applications. New paradigms are on demand and mobile agent technology is one of the features. In this paper, we propose a fault-tolerance execution model by using of mobile agents, for the purpose of consistent and correct performance with a required function under stated conditions for a specified period of time. Failures are classified into two classes based on their intrinsic different effects on mobile agents. For each kind of failure, a specified handling method is adopted. The introduction of exceptional handling method allows performance improvements during mobile agents' execution. The behaviors of mobile agents are statistically analyzed through several key parameters, including the migration time from node to node, the life expectancy of mobile agents, and the population distribution of mobile agents, to evaluate the performance of our model. The analytical results give new theoretical insights to the fault-tolerant execution of mobile agents and show that our model outperforms the existing fault-tolerant models. Our model provides an effective way to improve the reliability of computer systems.