A-peer: An Agent Platform Integrating Peer-to-Peer Network

  • Authors:
  • Tie-Yan Li;Zhi-Gang Zhao;Si-Zhen You

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CCGRID '03 Proceedings of the 3st International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Peer-to-Peer (p2p), as an emerging technology, is exerting huge influence on various application scenarios.Meanwhile, agents, assisting applications in traditionalparadigm with intelligent ways, have to fit in this new trend.Observing the potential benefits of combining agent andp2p technologies, we propose a novel platform-"A-peer"in our approach. A-peer is an agent based secure p2p platform which empower agents to be deployed in p2p environment. In this paper, we define the agent properties andmainly describe its protocol design, essentially agent transmission protocol, agent discovery protocol and agent messaging protocol. We also discuss the security aspect of theplatform. Our implementation is based on Aglets system [2]and JXTA platform [1]. A-peer could be efficient for agentbased p2p programming for distributed computing, decentralized collaboration, information searching and retrieval,and E-business.