Agent Tracking: A Reliable Agent Forwarding Mechanism

A mobile agent is the new technology that promises to make distributed computing implementation easier. Recent years have seen the development of many mobile agent systems based on several slightly different semantics for mobility, security, and communication. There are good arguments in support of the claim that agent technology will prove to be a valuable tool for building complex distributed systems. But as yet, these arguments are unsupported by much substantial evidence; agent technology is essentially immature and untested. With nobody of experience to guide them, agent system developers tend to find themselves falling into some traps: one of which is the failure of agent itself. In a distributed system, failure can occur in any hardware and software components. For any system, reliable operation is attained when all components of the system work according to specification. Mobile agent can get lost due to host failure or many network problems. Therefore reliability is a vital issue for deploying the mobile agent system. Our aims in this article are to discuss the current research work being thought for an agent tracking system-a reliable forwarding mechanism and develop a viable framework for reliability for mobile agent system, an issue awaiting the agent system developer