Geier, Martin ;
Hauck, Franz J.
:
Scalable Migration for Mobile Agents.
Erlangen:
FAU.
1999
TR-I4-99-02.- Interner Bericht.
12 Seiten.
Stichwörter:
Mobility, Mobile Agents, Scalability, CORBA, AspectIX
Abstract:
Mobile agents are a promising approach to distributed software.
The typical programming paradigm considers a mobile agent to be a mobile
object or a group of objects migrating together. With implementing "real world" applications
agents will get bigger and bigger. Then the question arises whether mobile agents implemented
as a single migration entity are still the adequate programming paradigm. The consequence would
be that mobility has to be confined or the praised advantage of bandwith limitation will be lost.
The Fragmented Object Agent Model offers a solution to this scalability problem. Agents are split into
smaller and mobile fragments, which still belong to the same agent. With this solution we can offer
scalability in migration by migrating just fragments and not the whole object at once, dynamic adaption
of migration decisions at runtime and omnipresence of the mobile agent by the usage of replication.
