Distributed Directory Service and Message Routing for Mobile Agents (1999)
| Venue: | Science of Computer Programming |
| Citations: | 25 - 10 self |
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@TECHREPORT{Moreau99distributeddirectory,
author = {Luc Moreau},
title = {Distributed Directory Service and Message Routing for Mobile Agents},
institution = {Science of Computer Programming},
year = {1999}
}
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Abstract
Research about networks and agents has identied the need for a layer that provides a uniform protocol to communicate with xed and mobile agents. In order to preserve the compatibility with existing infrastructures, proposed solutions have involved a \home agent", which forwards messages to a mobile entity. The mechanism of a home agent puts a burden on the infrastructure, which may hamper the scalability of the approach, in particular, in massively distributed systems, such as the amorphous computer or the ubiquitous/pervasive computing environment. Free from any compatibility constraint, we have designed an algorithm to route messages to mobile agents that does not require any xed location. The algorithm has two dierent facets: a distributed directory service that maintains distributed information about the location of a mobile agent, and a message router that uses the directory service to deliver messages to a mobile agent. Two properties of the algorithm were establi...
