Design of adaptive mobile agents and inter agent communication protocol

Abstract

Conventional mobile code systems are static configuration where the mobility of data, code and execution state is limited by physical link between the client and server, data structures used and programs that need to be in sync between the client/server systems. Communication between the hosts is done by physical links that are limited by single point network failure. Various portions of the distributed applications that run on the nodes of the system are bound to such nodes for their life time. Hence, the topology for these systems is assumed to be fixed. newlineThis architecture is challenged by experts and introduced degree of mobility in the logical structure. This can be achieved by fluid software fabric where components of the application can dynamically change their location. This form of Logical Movement is often called as Mobility. This newlinemobility in the software program allows the code and possibly the execution newlinestate is migrated in parts or as a whole at runtime. Variants exist on how to newlinemigrate the code and the execution state. The decision on migration is autonomously taken by the program at runtime. This kind of roaming applications often called Mobile Agents. Agents have ability to move from system to system on same network and communicate with an object on a remote system and then take advantage of being on the same host and the network as an object. newline newline