Mobile Agents for Pervasive Computing Using a Novel Method of Message Passing

- Pervasive computing is an emerging technology that brings new dimensions to distributed computing; it uses a wide variety of smart, ubiquitous devices throughout an individual’s working and living environment. Mobile agents are software entities that can migrate between servers or mobile agent environments of the network accomplishing various tasks on the behalf of their owners. The objective of this paper is to describe a test and prototyping environment for experimenting with mobile agents in pervasive environments. A prototype environment for a novel proactive infrastructure is described for mobile agent assisted pervasive computing. In addition, a new message passing algorithm is provided for mobile agent connection establishment and management (CEMA).

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: PDPTA
• Authors: David Levine, Renjith Thomas, Farhad Kamangar, Gergely V. Záruba
• Keywords: Mobile Agent, Mobile Agent Environments, PDPTA 2003, PDPTA 2007, Pervasive Computing