Ninth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications 2004 Volume 1 (ISCC'04)
Agent coordination in the mobile agent P2P architecture for supporting mobile devices in a Gnutella file-sharing network
Alexandria, Egypt
June 28-July 01
ISBN: 0-7803-8623-X
T.H. Hu, Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Telecommun., New South Wales Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia
B. Thai, Dept. of Comput. Sci., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Japan
The architecture proposed in our previous paper uses mobile agents to support the use of peer-to-peer applications by mobile devices. In order to improve the efficacy and scalability of the number of mobile agents supported by the agent execution environments, a suitable coordination model between the mobile agents is needed. The coordination model adopted is facilitated by the logical entity of a blackboard within the execution environment, where all mobile agents register their existence. In addition, the mobile agents form a peer-to-peer network within the execution environment, with one agent acting as the gateway to the outside network. The network topology adopted within the execution environment is a logical ring, and this choice is justified with some intuitive analysis.
Citation:
T.H. Hu, B. Thai, A. Seneviratne, "Agent coordination in the mobile agent P2P architecture for supporting mobile devices in a Gnutella file-sharing network," iscc, vol. 1, pp.25-30, Ninth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications 2004 Volume 1 (ISCC'04), 2004