• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.77-88
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• 2002

A mobile agent system is an infrastructure that supports the mobile agent paradigm. The main challenges encountered in designing this infrastructure are discussed in this paper. After introducing a generic mobile agent system, we discuss the design issues at two levels. System level issues like the provision of agent mobility and security, are mainly encountered in developing the runtime environments for agent execution. Language level issues, such as agent programming models and primitives, arise in providing support for mobile agent programming, mainly at the library level. This paper Identifies such system and language-level issues, and illustrates the different ways developers ate addressing them. We outline the specific challenges addressed by this dissertation, primarily in the area of mobile agent security.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.132-137
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• 2003

Due to the advances of the Internet technologies and web-based applications, the demand for wide distributed processing is increased. Mobile Agents have been proposed as a model to meet with the requirement for such environment. But current mobile agent system has the technical restriction. The requirement of mobile agent for the wide distributed processing is analysed in mobile agent system architecture, programming paradigm and technologies.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.225-234
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• 2002

The developers of mobile agent systems are considering integrating the system into the web and the developers of web servers are also considering supporting mobile agents in the future. But they are not clearly suggesting the relationship between web programming which has basically client/server architecture and mobile agent programming which is based on autonomous code mobility. In this paper, firstly, we clarify the method for integrating mobile agent programming into web programming by suggesting the model for mobile agent programming on the web. Secondly, by developing APIs for Java which is widely used for both web programming and mobile agent programming, we made it possible for programmers to use them for programming mobile agent on the web. Thirdly, we show the usefulness of the proposed model by adding and testing modules for execution environment of mobile agents on W3C's Java based web server, Jigsaw.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.8C no.6
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• pp.815-820
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• 2001

This paper presents a distributed mobile architecture aimed to support the mobility of mobile station. The proposed architecture considers three significant objects；mobile station (MS), mobile agent (MA) which logically represents mobile station in the wireline network, and trace agent (TA) to represent application server (AS) providing application service to mobile station. The mobile agent is made closely coupled with the mobile station while the trace agent is made closely coupled with the application server. During the handoff process, a flow control mechanism is considered to correct packet loss and out-of-sequence packets problem. The result of analytic additional time delay due to handoff processing is presented and simulation was performed to check the additional time delay as well as the correctness of handoff algorithm.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.33 no.12
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• pp.907-917
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a strategy to improve fault-tolerance and scalability of replicated services in mobile agent systems by applying an appropriate passive replication protocol for each replicated service according to whether the service is deterministic or non-deterministic. For this purpose, two passive replication protocols, PRPNS and PRPDS, are designed for non-deterministic and deterministic services respectively. They both allow visiting mobile agents to be forwarded to and execute their tasks on any node performing a service agent, not necessarily the primary agent. Especially, in the protocol PRPDS, after a backup service agent has received each mobile agent request and obtained its delivery sequence number from the primary service agent, the backup is responsible for processing the request and coordinating with the other replica service agents. Therefore, our strategy using the two proposed protocols can promise high scalability of replicated services a large number of mobile agents attempt to access in mobile agent systems. Our simulation results show that the proposed strategy performs much better than the one using only the traditional passive replication protocol.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.8C no.2
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• pp.221-233
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• 2001

오늘날 이동 에이전트 기술은 네트워크 트래픽을 효과적으로 줄이고, 서버의 인터페이스를 바꾸지 않고 클라이언트의 다양한 요청을 융통성 있게 서비스할 수 있는 기술로 여겨지고 있다. 그러나 대부분의 이동 에이전트 시스템들은 그들 자신의 구조를 적용하고 다른 방법으로 구현되어, 특정 이동 에이전트 시스템에서 생성된 이동 에이전트는 다른 에이전트 시스템에서는 사용될 수 없다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 OMG(Object Management Group)는 이질적인 에이전트 시스템간의 상호운용선(interoperability)을 증진시킬 목적으로 이동 에이전트와 에이전트 시스템간의 공통된 개념적인 모델에 대하여 기술한 MAF(Mobile Agent Facilities) 명세를 제안하였다. 본 논문에서는 OMG MAF 명세를 만족하는 자바 기반의 SMART 시스템에 관하여 기술한다. SMART 시스템은 MAF 명세에 따른 이동 에이전트간의 상호운용성을 지원하고, MAF 명세에서 권장하는 보안 모델을 기반으로 한 독자적인 보안 기능을 제공한다. 또한 보다 안정된 에이전트 시스템의 운영을 위하여 자체적인 에이전트 및 에이전트 시스템의 영속성(persistence)과 예외처리를 지원한다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.13A no.5 s.102
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• pp.455-464
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• 2006

In multi-regional mobile agent computing environments, spatial replication-based approach may be used as a representative mobile agent fault-tolerance technique because it allows agent execution to make progress without blocking even in case of agent failures. However, to apply this approach to real mobile agent-based computing systems, it is essential to minimize the overhead of locating and managing mobile agents replicated on each stage. This paper presents a new mobile agent location management protocol SRLM to solve this problem. The proposed protocol allows only the primary among all the replicated workers of each stage to register with its regional server and then, significantly reduces its location updating and message delivery overheads compared with the previous protocols. Also, the protocol addresses the location management problem incurred by electing the new primary among the remaining workers at a stage in case of the primary worker's failure.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.8B no.6
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• pp.641-650
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• 2001

Jini architecture's Network Plug and Work provides simple and flexible network environment for distributed applications. Through the Jini technology, facilities for dynamically registering and locating mobile agent services can be easily supported, as well as the services useful for activities of mobile agents can be dynamically supported. In this paper, we describe a Jini-based mobile agent system named JMoblet, which provides the basic functions of a mobile agent system such as creation, control, transfer, location and communication among agents. To increase the reliability of the system, it also provides exception handling and persistence of the mobile agent systems for reliability.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.91-98
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• 2020

The mobile agent, which handles a given task while migrating between the sensor nodes, moves including the execution commands and task processing results. This increases the size of the mobile agent, causing the network to load, leading to the migration time delay and the loss of migration reliability. This paper presents the method of lightening the mobile agent using distributed object technology and the algorithm for exploring and providing the optimal migration path that is actively performed in the event of network traffic, and it proposes a method to ensure the reliability of the mobile agent migration by applying them. In addition, through the comparative analysis experiments based on agent size and network traffic for the migration time of mobile agent equipped with active rules in sensor network-based mobile agent middleware environment, applying the proposed methods proves to ensure the autonomy and migration reliability of the mobile agent.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.8B no.6
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• pp.633-640
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• 2001

Mobile agent is a software program that provides autonomy and mobility for the users in the networked computers by deciding its own movement place. Since mobile agent does not keep up the network connection and migrate its executable code under its own control, it can be often used in the unstable network conditions such as the wireless network and the heavy traffic network. In this paper, we show that the electronic commerce system can be developed efficiently to retrieve and trade the goods in the mobile computing environment by using the mobile agent paradigm. Multiple mobile agents migrate into the market directly, then negotiate and trade autonomously relevant goods and services. The execution result and executable code of the mobile agent are returned to the home place and reported to the users. We show that the mobile agent paradigm is suitable to build the mobile electronic commerce system by designing and prototyping the mobile market system.