DATA TRAFFIC REDUCTION FOR MOBILE AGENT MIGRATION

Masayuki Higashino, Kenichi Takahashi, Takao Kawamura, Kazunori Sugahara

2012

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a method of reducing data traffic on mobile agent migration. Mobile agents are able to simplify network programming with autonomous process migration as compared with inter-process communication. However, mobile agents increase data traffic by transfer of program codes when migration. Therefore, many researchers have proposed for reducing data traffic on mobile agent system with agent behaviour. These methods complicate the algorithm of agent behaviour. On the other hand, we focus on a mechanism of mobile agent migration, and our method is fully independent from agent behaviour. Our method reduces program code traffic with cache on mobile agent runtime environment. We have implemented our technique on a mobile agent framework, and experimented on a practical mobile agent system. As a result, the system’s performance has improved to 52%.

References

  1. Chia, T.-H. and Kannapan, S. (1997). Strategically mobile agents. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobile Agents, pages 149-161, London, UK.
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in Harvard Style

Higashino M., Takahashi K., Kawamura T. and Sugahara K. (2012). DATA TRAFFIC REDUCTION FOR MOBILE AGENT MIGRATION . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8425-96-6, pages 351-354. DOI: 10.5220/0003747403510354


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart12,
author={Masayuki Higashino and Kenichi Takahashi and Takao Kawamura and Kazunori Sugahara},
title={DATA TRAFFIC REDUCTION FOR MOBILE AGENT MIGRATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2012},
pages={351-354},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003747403510354},
isbn={978-989-8425-96-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - DATA TRAFFIC REDUCTION FOR MOBILE AGENT MIGRATION
SN - 978-989-8425-96-6
AU - Higashino M.
AU - Takahashi K.
AU - Kawamura T.
AU - Sugahara K.
PY - 2012
SP - 351
EP - 354
DO - 10.5220/0003747403510354