Mobile agent network for supporting personal mobility

Needs and interests of the personal mobility have been increasing, because of the rapid development of wireless communication technologies and computer networks. Telecommunication sectors have made a lot of efforts to provide the personal mobility resulting in the development of PCN (Personal Communication Networks) or UPT (Universal Personal Telecommunications) services. However, the mobility service in the Internet has been mainly focused on the host mobility such as Mobile IF, while the personal mobility has been neglected relatively. In this paper, the agent network, the virtual network mapped onto physical networks, is proposed to support the personal mobility on the Internet. Mobile agent technology is adopted to build the agent network. The agent engine is designed and implemented with Java, and the Agent/Servant architecture is suggested to complement restrictions of Java applets.