NDLI: Mobile Agent Migration Based on Code Caching

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Higashino, M. Takahashi, K. Kawamura, T. Sugahara, K.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Network-based system requires us to implement both a client-side and server-side program. The update of a client-side program involves the update of a server-side program, and vise versa. To reduce this inconvenience, mobile agent-based programming is attractive to design, implement and maintain distributed systems. Because a mobile agent migrates from one computer to other computer and can continues its execution, both a client-side and server-side program is not required to be implemented. The migration of a mobile agent, however, causes increase of data traffic. Therefore, many researchers proposed methods to reduce a number of agents migration. However the effectiveness of these approaches is limited because they depend on mobile agent behaviors. Furthermore, they restrict the implementation of mobile agents. In this paper, we focus on an agent runtime environment and try to reduce data traffic in mobile agent migrations. In our proposal, an agent runtime environment caches agent codes and agent status. Cached codes and status are reuse when a mobile agent comes back again. Thus, our method enables to reduce data traffics caused by mobile agent migration at the agent runtime environment level. Moreover, our proposed method allows us flexible implementations of mobile agents, since an agent runtime environment is independent from the mobile agent behaviors. We have applied our method on a mobile agent framework, called Maglog, and conducted experimental results. The results show 52% improvement of mobile agent migration time.
Starting Page	651
Ending Page	656
File Size	225836
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467308670
DOI	10.1109/WAINA.2012.127
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-03-26
Publisher Place	Japan
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Computers Java Runtime environment Pollution cache Mobile agents mobile agent agent runtime environment Programming Mobile communication data traffic
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in