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A Review on Mobile Agent Technology and Its Perspectives

1Department of Electronics Communication & Engineering, Mewar University, Rajasthan

2Computer Science & Engineering Department, GITM, Kablana, Jhajjar, Haryana


Journal of Computer Sciences and Applications. 2015, Vol. 3 No. 6, 166-171
DOI: 10.12691/jcsa-3-6-11
Copyright © 2015 Science and Education Publishing

Cite this paper:
Rajesh Kumar, S Niranjanr1, Yashpal Singh. A Review on Mobile Agent Technology and Its Perspectives. Journal of Computer Sciences and Applications. 2015; 3(6):166-171. doi: 10.12691/jcsa-3-6-11.

Correspondence to: Rajesh  Kumar, Department of Electronics Communication & Engineering, Mewar University, Rajasthan. Email: rkvashisth83@gmail.com

Abstract

No doubt, the usages of mobile agent and mobile phone technologies are rapidly increased. The mobile agent has a promising room in the industry area. Unfortunately, this technology faces some security problems from mobile agents and hosts sides. Two of the fundamental issues in designing protocols for message passing between mobile agents (MAs) are tracking the migration of the target agent and forwarding messages to it. Even with an ideal fault-free network-transport mechanism, messages can be dropped during MA migration. Therefore, in order to provide reliable message delivery, protocols need to overcome message loss caused by asynchronous operations of agent migration and message forwarding. As mobile devices and third generation mobile networks have become a reality, location based services are thought to be a major growing area. Mobile devices are given context sensitiveness so that they can be aware of the users/services surrounding physical environment and state. In this paper we propose message forwarding approaches, namely push and pull, are explored to design adaptive and reliable message delivery protocols.Also location aware services scheme by using an agency, which helps in discovering the required services for the mobile users. The agency consists of five agents: Manager Agent (MA), Route Monitoring Agent (RMA), Local Service Management Agent (LSMA), Global Service Management Agent (GSMA) and Area Monitoring Agent (AMA).

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