Programming and Deploying Java Mobile Agents Aglets
Programming and Deploying Java Mobile Agents Aglets
Checkpointing and Rollback of Wide-area Distributed Applications using Mobile Agents
IPDPS '01 Proceedings of the 15th International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
A Reliable Message Delivery Protocol for Mobile Agents
ASA/MA 2000 Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications and Fourth International Symposium on Mobile Agents
Mobile Agents: Are They a Good Idea?
MOS '96 Selected Presentations and Invited Papers Second International Workshop on Mobile Object Systems - Towards the Programmable Internet
Reliable Communication for Highly Mobile Agents
ASAMA '99 Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications Third International Symposium on Mobile Agents
Location Transparent Routing in Mobile Agent Systems - Merging name Lookups with Routing
FTDCS '99 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
Agent Communication Network - A Mobile Agent Computation Model for Internet Applications
ISCC '99 Proceedings of the The Fourth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
Mobile software agents: an overview
IEEE Communications Magazine
The communication model of migrating workflow system
PRIMA'06 Proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim international conference on Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems
Multi region-tree based dynamic commission home proxy communication mechanism for mobile agent
PRIMA'06 Proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim international conference on Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems
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Agent mobility presents challenges to the design of efficient message transport protocols for mobile agent communications. A practical mobile agent communication protocol should provide location transparency to the programmer and thus need to keep track of the movement of an agent. In addition, because of the asynchronous nature of message passing and agent migration, how to guarantee the delivery of messages to highly mobile agents is still an active research topic in mobile agent systems. In this paper we propose an efficient mailbox-based algorithm for inter-mobile agent communications. The algorithm decentralizes the role of the origin (home) host in locating an agent. Furthermore, by separating the mailbox from its owner agent, the algorithm can be made adaptive and is efficient in terms of location updating and message delivery. In the cases that mobile agents migrate frequently but seldom communicate, our algorithm turns out to be preferable.