Mobile software agents: an overview
Vu Anh Pham; Karmouch, A.
Communications Magazine, IEEE
Volume 36, Issue 7, Jul 1998 Page(s):26 - 37
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/35.689628
Summary:The anticipated increase in popular use of the Internet will
create more opportunities in distance learning, electronic commerce, and
multimedia communication, but it will also create more challenges in
organizing information and facilitating its efficient retrieval. From
the network perspective, there will be additional challenges and
problems in meeting bandwidth requirements and network management. Many
researchers believed that the mobile agent paradigm (mobile object)
could propose several attractive solutions to deal with such challenges
and problems. A number of mobile agent systems have been designed and
implemented in academic institutions and commercial firms. However, few
applications were found to take advantage of the mobile agent. Among the
hurdles facing this emerging paradigm are concerns about security
requirements and efficient resource management. This article introduces
the core concepts of this emerging paradigm, and presents an account of
current research efforts in the context of telecommunications. The goal
is to provide the interested reader with a clear background of the
opportunities and challenges this emerging paradigm brings about, and a
descriptive look at some of the forerunners that are providing
experimental technologies supporting this paradigm
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