Seven good reasons for mobile agents
Communications of the ACM
Mobile processing in distributed and open environments
Mobile processing in distributed and open environments
Tutorial: mobile software agents for dynamic routing
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Multipoint-to-Point Routing with QoS Guarantees Using Mobile Agents
MATA '01 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications
Communication Concepts for Mobile Agent Systems
MA '97 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobile Agents
Mobile Agents for Adaptive Routing
HICSS '98 Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 7 - Volume 7
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Thus far, we have seen a remarkable number of novel and efficient mobile agent schemes and systems developed and presented in the literature as part of the ongoing research in the field of mobile agents. Encouraging results have been reported in diverse areas of network management, in which different platforms for mobile agents' design have been used to achieve crucial networking tasks, such as routing. This paper contributes to the ongoing research by evaluating formal agent migration techniques, being one of the most important aspects to consider when designing mobile agent applications. Existing methods are discussed and evaluated through simulations over different network topologies. The results obtained emphasize the importance of considering the completion time required for each of the migration techniques to obtain minimum spanning trees during the routing process. Furthermore, a delay evaluation is performed for a sample program used to obtain optimum routing tables.