Development of an mobile agent platform for IPv6 network environment: Mobile-C

Mobile agents are used with an increasing trend in network security, QoS, routing, network monitoring and management applications. The platforms such as IBM Aglets, JADE, Mobile-C are commonly used in mobile agent applications. These platforms give support for only IPv4 networks. However, they don't support IPv6 networks. In this study, Mobile-C platform which was developed for IPv4 network structure is modified to support IPv6 networks. Sending an agent, agent movement and data collection tests with Mobile-C platform has been carried out successfully in a real IPv6 network.