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A Migration Technique for Autonomous Mobile Agents in Dynamic Environments  

Bok, Kyoung-Soo (한국과학기술원 전산과)
Yeo, Myung-Ho (충북대학교 정보통신공학과)
Yoo, Jae-Soo (충북대학교 전기전자컴퓨터공학부)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.32, no.11, 2005 , pp. 1084-1098 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a migration technique for autonomous mobile agents suitable to dynamic environments. The proposed migration technique dynamically creates the itinerary of agents that considers states of networks and systems. In the migration of the agent, it first sends prefetching message to the next system. The system receives necessary data for migration in advance. Through this, we reduce the amount of the sending data and save the time for creating the instance of the agent. And it improves the execution efficiency by using the checkpoint-based recovery method that does not execute the agent again and recovers the process states even though the errors take place. To show superiority of the proposed technique, we compare the proposed method with the existing methods through various simulations.
Keywords
Autonomous Mobile Agent; Dynamic Itinerary; Migration; Perfetching;
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