Design and Implementation of an Open Sourced Location Service System for the Aglets Mobile Agent System

Mobile agent technologies can be applied in many fields, including electronic commerce, personal assistance, secure brokering, distributed information retrieval, telecommunication network services, monitoring and notification, etc. Since most of the mobile agents rely on a location service system to communicate with each other in the network environment, the location service system must provide reliable location information and guarantee the message delivery. The aglets system is a popular open sourced Java-based mobile agent system, yet it current supports no complete location service solution. This work designs and implements an open sourced location service system for the aglets mobile agent system, which has four major advantages: easy to integrate for legacy applications, easy to join servers in a single region, easy to link among multi-regions for different laboratories, and easy to implement, thus making the range of applications more extensive. Finally, the experimental results demonstrate that our system is efficient in various network environments