MATA '00 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications
Realizing Distributed Intelligent Networks Based on Distributed Object and Mobile Agent Technologies
ICN '01 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Networking-Part 2
A Hybrid Approach to Network Performance Monitoring Based on Mobile Agents and CORBA
MATA '02 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications
A telecommunications model for managing complexity of voice and data networks and services
Managing data mining technologies in organizations
Mobile agents for a brokering service in the electronic marketplace
Decision Support Systems
Secure distributed intelligent networks
Computer Communications
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This article presents an IN architecture that is based on distributed object and mobile agent technologies. It deviates from traditional IN in two prominent ways: first, by substituting message-based protocols with a CORBA distributed processing environment. The new communications infrastructure not only serves to convey IN flows, but also functions as a potent unifying location-transparent layer. Second, the new architecture makes heavy use of mobile agent technology. Service logic programs are implemented as mobile agents, and are thus not constrained to control the switch's operations remotely from a central location. Instead, they can migrate and control its operations locally. The infrastructure elements of the architecture exploit this ability of service logic programs by cloning them and dragging their clones to the appropriate locations in response to excess processing or signaling load. The architecture is in this way self-balancing, in contrast to the centralized nature of traditional IN. A prototype implementation is presented along with a service creation framework that enables the IN service designer to disregard environment-related issues and concentrate on the IN logic of the services per se