Mobile Agents in Networking and Distributed Computing

347 Pages·2012·3.217 MB·English

by  Jiannong Cao, Sajal K. Das

MOBILE AGENTS
IN NETWORKING
AND DISTRIBUTED
COMPUTING
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COMPUTING
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“To my wife, Miao Yan, for her tolerance, support and caring”
—Jiannong Cao
“To my professors(cid:2)Late A. K. Choudhury (Calcutta University),
Lalit M. Patnaik (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), and
Narsingh Deo (University of Central Florida)(cid:2)for their
mentoring and showing the beauty of research.”
—Sajal K. Das

CONTENTS
FOREWORD ix
PREFACE xi
CONTRIBUTORS xiii
PART I INTRODUCTION 1
1 Mobile Agents and Applications in Networking
and Distributed Computing 3
PART II PRINCIPLES OF APPLYING MOBILE AGENTS 17
2 Mobile Agent Communications 19
3 Distributed Security Algorithms for Mobile Agents 41
4 Mobile Agent Coordination 71
5 Cooperating Mobile Agents 93
PART III MOBILE AGENT BASED TECHNIQUES AND
APPLICATIONS 127
6 Network Routing 129
7 Resource and Service Discovery 161
8 Distributed Control 189
9 Distributed Databases and Transaction Processing 219
10 Mobile Agents in Mobile and Wireless Computing 243
vii
viii CONTENTS
PART IV DESIGN AND EVALUATION 263
11 Naplet: Microkernel and Pluggable Design of Mobile Agent Systems 265
12 Performance Evaluation of Mobile Agent Platforms and
Comparison with Client–Server Technologies 299
Index 323