Building reusable mobile agents for network management

2006

J Netw Syst Manage

This paper presents a framework for reusable mobile agents for network management in the sense that they are independent of either particular networks or applications. The framework enables a mobile agent to be composed from two layered components, which are mobile agents. The former is a carrier of the latter over particular networks independent of any management tasks and the latter defines management tasks performed at each host independently of any networks. The framework also offers a mechanism for matchmaking the two components. Since the mechanism is formulated on a process algebra approach, it can accurately select the appropriate itinerary component to perform management tasks at hosts that the tasks want to visit over networks. The framework provides a methodology for easily developing and operating mobile agents for traveling among multiple sub-networks to perform their management tasks at all of the nodes that they visit. This paper also describes the framework, its prototype implementation, and a practical application.

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The approach was just an extension of the previous framework [17,18] and aimed at updating software in computing clusters, unlike the framework presented in this paper. Lastly, we should describe an approach to building configurable protocols for agent migration in another paper [20].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building and Selecting Mobile Agents for Network Management

2006

J Netw Syst Manage

“…All runtime systems can exchange agents with others through the use of mobile agent technology. Each agent can itinerate between multiple computers under their own control [7][8][9]. After arriving at its destination or being duplicated, each agent can continue working without losing accumulated work, such as the content of instance variables in the agent's program, at the source computers.…”

Section: Design and Implementationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bio-inspired Organization for Multi-agents on Distributed Systems

Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology

2006

Abstract. This paper presents a middleware system for multi-agents on a distributed system as a general test-bed for bio-inspired approaches. The middleware is unique to other approaches, including distributed object systems, because it can maintain and migrate a dynamic federation of multiple agents on different computers. It enables each agent to explicitly define its own deployment policy as a relocation between the agent and another agent. This paper describes a prototype implementation of the middleware built on a Java-based mobile agent system and its practical applications that illustrates the utility and effectiveness of the approach in real distributed systems.

“…We are further interested in developing a methodology for testing distributed applications that are based on this new framework by using the approach. We also proposed a specification language for the itinerary of mobile software for hierarchical mobile agents [12,14,15]. The language enables more flexible and varied policies to be defined for deploying agents.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Organization and Mobility in Mobile Agent Computing

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

2006

Abstract.A mobile agent system for organizing multiple mobile agents is presented. It provides two unique two mechanisms for dynamically organizing mobile agents, which may be running on single or multiple computers. The first enables a mobile agent to contain other mobile agents inside it and migrate to another mobile agent or computer with its inner agents. It provides an approach to composing large-scale mobile software from a collection of mobile agents and using mobile agents as deployable software components. The second enables a mobile agent to be deployed at computers according to the movements of other mobile agents. It can move a federation of agents running on different computers, over a distributed system. It can build and aggregate distributed applications from one or more mobile components that can be dynamically deployed at mobile or stationary computers during the execution of the application. This paper also presents a prototype implementation of the system and its application.