A mobile agent-based middleware for opportunistic resource allocation and communications

Authors:
Marco Carvalho;Michal Pechoucek;Niranjan Suri
Affiliations:
Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, FL;Gerstner Laboratory, Czech Technical University, Prague 6, Czech Republic;Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, FL
Venue:
DAMAS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Defence Applications of Multi-Agent Systems
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Dependable communication capabilities are amongst the most important technical requirements for mission success in military combat operations. This paper introduces a mobile agent-based middleware that supports both point-to-point messaging and hierarchical data-streaming. Two infrastructure technologies (Mockets and FlexFeed) are introduced as service providers for messaging and publish-subscriber models for data streaming. Opportunistic resource allocation and monitoring are handled by distributed coordination algorithms, implemented here through two complementary technologies: Stand-In Agents and Acquaintance models.