IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) is a scholarly archival journal published monthly. Parallelism and distributed computing are foundational research and technology to rapidly advance computer systems and their applications.
From the January 2010 issue...
A Reliable Communication Protocol for Multiregion Mobile Agent Environments
By SungJin Choi, MaengSoon Baik, HongSoo Kim, EunJoung Byun, and Hyunseung Choo
A mobile agent system is regarded as an attractive technology when developing distributed applications. However, mobility makes it more difficult to trace agents. It is also more complex for agents to communicate with each other in a reliable manner. Therefore, a reliable communication protocol is necessary to control and monitor mobile agents and deliver messages between them. In this paper, a new Reliable Communication Protocol (RCP) is proposed for a multiregion mobile agent computing environment.
A mobile agent system is regarded as an attractive technology when developing distributed applications. However, mobility makes it more difficult to trace agents. It is also more complex for agents to communicate with each other in a reliable manner. Therefore, a reliable communication protocol is necessary to control and monitor mobile agents and deliver messages between them. In this paper, a new Reliable Communication Protocol (RCP) is proposed for a multiregion mobile agent computing environment.
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