A reliable mobile agent communication protocol

Jiannong Cao; Liang Zhang; Jin Yang; Sajal K. Das

A reliable mobile agent communication protocol

Jiannong Cao, Liang Zhang, Jin Yang, Sajal K. Das

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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Abstract

In this paper, we first propose a generic framework for the design of mobile agent communication protocols. The framework uses a flexible and adaptive mailbox-based scheme that associates each mobile agent with a mailbox while allowing the decoupling between them. This flexible approach allows us to design a variety of protocols which can be made adaptive to specific applications. Based on the framework, we derive a new protocol which possesses good characteristics such as efficiency and adaptability. To improve reliability, we implement the protocol with a fault tolerant architecture that consists of two levels of message passing primitives. Simulation results show that our protocol can effectively handle both network and host failures while keeping the communication cost low.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Pages	468-475
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2004
Event	Proceedings - 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems - Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan Duration: 24 Mar 2004 → 26 Mar 2004

Conference

Conference	Proceedings - 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Country	Japan
City	Hachioji, Tokyo
Period	24/03/04 → 26/03/04

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Hardware and Architecture
Computer Networks and Communications

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