Transparent process migration: design alternatives and the sprite implementation
Software—Practice & Experience
Distributed operating systems
Distributed Operating Systems: The Logical Design
Distributed Operating Systems: The Logical Design
A Ratio-Based Update Scheme for Mobile Agent Location Management
KES-AMSTA '09 Proceedings of the Third KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
The control of tasks in traditional distributed systems is a well researched field for whichmany solutions exist. These solutions exploit well defined parent-child relationships given indistributed systems. But they are not applicable in mobile agent systems, since no similar natural relationships between agents exist. Thus new mechanisms have to be developed. In this paper, we present an efficient control mechanism for mobile agents. It is based on the tracking method of AgentTracer and agent shadow and we combine this tracking method with energy concept. In the tracking mechanism, an artificial relationship between agents and the AgentTracer is defined. The AgenrTracer has many entries for all agents that are created in its area. Each entry records the current location of the dependent agent. Removing an entry at AgentTracer implies that the dependent agent is declared an orphan and eventually be terminated. In an extension of the basic mechanism we additionally allow the AgentTracer to be mobile.