TY - GEN
T1 - A mutual exclusion algorithm for mobile agents-based applications
AU - Cao, Chun
AU - Cao, Jiannong
AU - Ma, Xiaoxing
AU - Lu, Jian
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - The mobile agent (MA) technology has been widely applied in distributed applications. However, since mobile agents are highly autonomous, coordinating the their behaviours is hard. We concentrate on the mutual exclusion issue in this paper and propose an algorithm for achieving mutex among mobile agents. In contrast to the existing algorithms for traditional distributed processes, the proposed algorithm does not require MAs to have a pre-knowledge about other competitors, nor the total number of them. MAs can join/leave the competition session freely. The algorithm performance is also evaluated through simulations.
AB - The mobile agent (MA) technology has been widely applied in distributed applications. However, since mobile agents are highly autonomous, coordinating the their behaviours is hard. We concentrate on the mutual exclusion issue in this paper and propose an algorithm for achieving mutex among mobile agents. In contrast to the existing algorithms for traditional distributed processes, the proposed algorithm does not require MAs to have a pre-knowledge about other competitors, nor the total number of them. MAs can join/leave the competition session freely. The algorithm performance is also evaluated through simulations.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=38149111821&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
SN - 3540747419
SN - 9783540747413
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 56
EP - 67
BT - Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications - 5th International Symposium, ISPA 2007, Proceedingsq
T2 - 5th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, ISPA 2007
Y2 - 29 August 2007 through 31 August 2007
ER -