TY - GEN
T1 - Mobile agent enabled application mobility for pervasive computing
AU - Yu, Ping
AU - Cao, Jiannong
AU - Wen, Weidong
AU - Lu, Jian
PY - 2006/1/1
Y1 - 2006/1/1
N2 - Applications that can follow mobile users when they change to a different environment are in high demand by pervasive computing. In this paper, we describe a mobile agent based paradigm for enabling an application to migrate with the user in pervasive computing environments. Compared with existing efforts on application mobility, our approach has the following distinctive features: (1) Applications are supported by a middleware with a reflective architecture that helps separate business functions from context-awareness logic; (2) Mobile agent is used to manage the mobility of an application and help the application adapt to its new context; (3) The advantages of mobile agent, such as reactivity, autonomy and intelligence, are naturally incorporated into the pervasive computing environment. Our experience shows that mobile agent is a promising technology for pervasive and mobile computing where mobile agents can act as a bridge connecting the cyber world with the physical world.
AB - Applications that can follow mobile users when they change to a different environment are in high demand by pervasive computing. In this paper, we describe a mobile agent based paradigm for enabling an application to migrate with the user in pervasive computing environments. Compared with existing efforts on application mobility, our approach has the following distinctive features: (1) Applications are supported by a middleware with a reflective architecture that helps separate business functions from context-awareness logic; (2) Mobile agent is used to manage the mobility of an application and help the application adapt to its new context; (3) The advantages of mobile agent, such as reactivity, autonomy and intelligence, are naturally incorporated into the pervasive computing environment. Our experience shows that mobile agent is a promising technology for pervasive and mobile computing where mobile agents can act as a bridge connecting the cyber world with the physical world.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33750038251&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
SN - 3540380914
SN - 9783540380917
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 648
EP - 657
BT - Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing - Third International Conference, UIC 2006, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, UIC 2006
Y2 - 3 September 2006 through 6 September 2006
ER -