The Design and Implementation of an Intelligent Agent-Based File System

As bandwidth constraints on LAN/WAN environments decrease, the demand for distributed services will continue to increase. In particular, the proliferation of user-level applications requiring high-capacity distributed file storage systems will demand that such services be universally available. At the same time, the advent of high-speed networks have made the deployment of application and communication solutions based upon an Intelligent Mobile Agent (IMA) framework practical. Agents have proven to present an ideal development paradigm for the creation of autonomous large-scale distributed systems, and an agent-based communication scheme would facilitate the creation of independently administered distributed file services. This thesis thus outlines an architecture for such a distributed file system based upon an IMA communication framework.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2000

Author dc:creator

• Hopper, S. Andrew

Contributors dc:contributor

• Mikler, Armin R.
• Tarau, Paul
• Tate, Stephen R.

• Computer files -- Management.
• Information storage and retrieval systems.
• Intelligent agents (Computer software)
• high-speed networks
• bandwidth
• LAN
• distributed file system

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Hopper, S. Andrew
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 47169640
untcat: b2300468
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