DADS - A Distributed Agent Delivery System

Mobile agents require an appropriate platform that can facilitate their migration and execution. In particular, the design and implementation of such a system must balance several factors that will ensure that its constituent agents are executed without problems. Besides the basic requirements of migration and execution, an agent system must also provide mechanisms to ensure the security and survivability of an agent when it migrates between hosts. In addition, the system should be simple enough to facilitate its widespread use across large scale networks (i.e Internet). To address these issues, this thesis discusses the design and implementation of the Distributed Agent Delivery System (DADS). The DADS provides a de-coupled design that separates agent acceptance from agent execution. Using functional modules, the DADS provides services ranging from language execution and security to fault-tolerance and compression. Modules allow the administrator(s) of hosts to declare, at run-time, the services that they want to provide. Since each administrative domain is different, the DADS provides a platform that can be adapted to exchange heterogeneous blends of agents across large scale networks.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2002

Author dc:creator

• Cozzolino, Clifford Joseph

Contributors dc:contributor

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

• Mobile agents (Computer software)
• Distributed Agent Delivery System
• agent migration
• execution
• fault-tolerance

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Cozzolino, Clifford Joseph
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 52110386
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3352/
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OAI identifier oai:identifier

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