Mobile agents for routing, topology discovery, and automatic network reconfiguration in ad-hoc networks

Abstract

Wireless networks and the usage of mobile devices are becoming popular in recent days, especially in creating ad-hoc networks. There is thus scope for developing mobile systems, where devices take an active part of creating a network infrastructure, and can actually be used to route data between networks. This research proposes to assess different models of the usage of static and mobile agents to determine the best route through ad-hoc networks. The determination of this route is a complex one, and requires research into the best metrics to identify the best path, such as memory capacity, network performance, processing capabilities, cost, and so on. One model is to use a mixture of mobile and static agents to gather relevant information. These agents could perform important tests, which could be used to generate the best route through a network. This research looks at different models for the deployment of these agents, which balance the usage of static and mobile agents. These are appraised in the terms of performance, reconfigurability, and easy of installation.

Recent Advances in Mobile Agent‐Oriented Applications

“…Determining the best path to route traffic based on the availability of node resources has also been proposed [31]. The proposal assumes the presence of static agents in every node monitoring available connections (local topology), as well as resources of the node.…”

Ad hocrouting metrics and applied weighting for QoS support

“…In addition, different routing scenarios impose different requirements, and thus a path may be suitable for a certain objective but unsuitable for another. The determination of the optimal route is a complex task, and requires research into the best metrics, such as memory capacity, network performance, processing capabilities and so on, which should also be appraised against the routing objective that a route is seeking to accomplish [17].…”

Probabilistic proactive routing with active route trace-back for MANETs

“…This approach suffers from high setup delay and also a high overhead, especially in presence of high mobility of nodes. Various probabilistic routing algorithms using agents in the routing process of MANETs have also been introduced, see, for example [21][22][23]18]. In [18], Roth et al proposed a probabilistic routing algorithm by exploiting swarm intelligence, called Termite.…”