A Naming Service Architecture and Optimal Periodical Update Scheme for a Multi Mobile Agent System

An agent's mobility presents a challenge to the communication framework in the mobile agent paradigm. A mobile agent communication, e.g. messaging, can only occur when the actual location of the mobile agent is known and a reliable message delivery scheme is utilized. This paper concentrates on designing a globally distributed naming service architecture, which aids in locating a mobile agent and finding the optimal time threshold. The optimal time threshold aims to minimize the sum of the cost of periodical updates and the cost of maintaining forwarding pointers