Multicluster, mobile, multimedia radio network
Wireless Networks
Generating representative Web workloads for network and server performance evaluation
SIGMETRICS '98/PERFORMANCE '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
Dispersion games: general definitions and some specific learning results
Eighteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence
AIWORC '00 Proceedings of the Academia/Industry Working Conference on Research Challenges
ISCC '01 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
MARP: A Multi-Agent Routing Protocol for Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Scalable load balancing on distributed web servers using mobile agents
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Scalable web services and architecture
Using Mobile Agents for Resource Sharing
IAT '04 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
Ant Agents for Hybrid Multipath Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
WONS '05 Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services
An overlay smart spaces system for load balancing in wireless LANs
Mobile Networks and Applications
Behaviosites: a novel paradigm for affecting distributed behavior
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
An efficient resource allocation scheme for multimedia applications in MANET
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Performance evaluation of a mobile agent-based platform for ubiquitous service provision
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
d-Agent: an approach to mobile agent planning for distributed information retrieval
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Extended system design for RFID enabled supply chains with non-RFID technologies
International Journal of Business Information Systems
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Mobile agents are becoming increasingly important in the highly distributed applications frameworks seen today. Their routing/dispatching from node to node is a very important issue as we need to safeguard application efficiency, achieve better load balancing and resource utilization throughout the underlying network. Selecting the best target server for dispatching a mobile agent is, therefore, a multi-faceted problem that needs to be carefully tackled. In this paper we propose distributed, adaptive routing schemes (next node selection) for mobile agents. The proposed schemes overcome risks like load oscillations, i.e., agents simultaneously abandoning a congested node in search for other, less saturated node. We try to induce different routing decisions taken by agents to achieve load balancing and better utilization of network resources. We consider five different algorithms and evaluate them through simulations. Our findings are quite promising both from the user/application and the network/infrastructure perspective.