Combining state and model-based approaches for mobile agent load balancing

  • Authors:
  • Christos Georgousopoulos;Omer F. Rana

  • Affiliations:
  • Cardiff University, P.O. Box 916, Cardiff CF24 3XF, UK;Cardiff University, P.O. Box 916, Cardiff CF24 3XF, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

An approach for dynamic load balancing of mobile agents is described. We demonstrate this approach for a multi-agent system operating on an active digital library composed of multi-spectral images of the Earth, as part of the Synthetic Aperture Radar Atlas (SARA)[25]. In the proposed architecture specialized stationary agents are used to gather system state information and make decisions on the distribution of mobile agents among the servers. Our approach is based on a combination of a state and model-based approaches to load balancing.