A Mobile Agent Enabled Fully Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm
MA '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Agents
Future Generation Computer Systems - Special issue: Advanced services for clusters and internet computing
Data Management within mHealth Environments: Patient Sensors, Mobile Devices, and Databases
Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ)
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Abstract: One of the problems in replication is how to coordinate the updates made to the copies maintained at different replicated servers so that data consistency is ensured. This paper presents a novel approach to designing protocols for accessing replicated data in a large-scale distributed environment such as the Internet. Unlike traditional message-passing based protocols which require expensive exchanges of messages among the replicated servers, the proposed approach uses cooperating mobile agents to synchronize the access to the replicated data at different servers. The design of such a mobile-agent enabled, fully-distributed protocol is presented and a prototypical implementation using IBM's Aglets is described. The performance of the protocol is also discussed.