Data broadcasting strategies over multiple unreliable wireless channels
CIKM '95 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Information and knowledge management
IEEE Spectrum
A performance evaluation of the mobile agent paradigm
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
On mutli-resolution document transmission in mobile Web
ACM SIGMOD Record
Supporting the WWW in wireless communications through mobile agents
Mobile Networks and Applications
RMDP: an FEC-based reliable multicast protocol for wireless environments
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
How to Integrate Mobile Agents into Web Servers
WET-ICE '97 Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Enabling Technologies on Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
On Supporting Weakly-Connected Browsing in a Mobile Web Environment
ICDCS '00 Proceedings of the The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ( ICDCS 2000)
Architecture design of grid GIS and its applications on image processing based on LAN
Information Sciences—Informatics and Computer Science: An International Journal
Using cooperative mobile agents to monitor distributed and dynamic environments
Information Sciences: an International Journal
A novel strategy approach for agent-based resource management system
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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A mobile environment is characterized by low communication bandwidth and poor network connectivity. Accessing web documents in a mobile environment is thus both inefficient and ineffective. To combat for the low bandwidth problem, we employ the multi-resolution transmission and browsing mechanism for web documents, in which a web document is partitioned into multiple units, to enable a mobile client to explore the more content-bearing portion earlier. To combat for the poor network connectivity problem, we utilize a mobile agent model in the distributed agent environment (DAE). A mobile agent has the capability of migrating to a base station that is currently serving a mobile client, establishing a virtual connection to the client. The agent, acting on behalf of the client, travels along the wired network to carry out its tasks and collect results, returning to the client at the end of its itinerary. We have implemented the DAE architecture, which supports mobile agent in a mobile environment, and demonstrated its usefulness in supporting our multi-resolution mechanism. We have also conducted experimental study, comparing performance between conventional mobile client/server model and different mobile agent models in accessing a database server through both wireless and wired networks.