Mobile agents in a distributed heterogeneous database system

  • Authors:

  • Balázs Goldschmidt;Zoltán László;Mario Döller;Harald Kosch

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary;Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary;Institute of Information Technology, University Klagenfurt, Austria;Institute of Information Technology, University Klagenfurt, Austria

  • Venue:
  • EUROMICRO-PDP'02 Proceedings of the 10th Euromicro conference on Parallel, distributed and network-based processing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present a new infrastructure for multimedia database searches that is based on CORBA and mobile agent technology. A new mobile agent system, called Vagabond, was implemented in pure Java using only standard CORBA facilities. The fundamental agent design and architecture is introduced here. Measurements demonstrated the merits of Vagabond, namely the simple design, the implicit heterogenity inherited from CORBA, and its speed. The system (renamed as M3) was implanted inside an Oracle8i database system which is able to run Java code as a stored procedure. Further measurements have justified the idea presented above, ie. sending agents directly inside the database can decrease the response time of multimedia content search and retrieval. However, the required modifications made the embedded agency accessible for clients using only Aurora, Oracle's modified Visibroker ORB. On the basis of the Proxy design pattern, the paper presents a proxy solution that encapsulates the specific protocol issues that restricted interoperability, and thus provides the user of the infrastructure with the benefits of a truly heterogeneous environment.