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Web Agent Supporting Transport Layer Mobility

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Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications (MATA 2005)

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Typical transmission control protocol (TCP) based web agents in mobile wireless environment have several deficiencies, such as performance degradation, head-of-line blocking, and unsupported mobility. The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a new transport protocol, which provides multi-streaming and multi-homing features. SCTP extensions for dynamic address reconfiguration will support transport layer mobility. We address SCTP based web agents supporting seamless transport layer mobility in the wired and wireless environment. Our proposed SCTP based mobile web agent is composed of application engine to use the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) and protocol engine to deploy SCTP with dynamic address reconfiguration. We have investigated and described the components necessary to implement mobile web agents in a ubiquitous environment. Mean response time is an important performance measure of web agents. Simulation results show that our SCTP based web agent reduces the mean response time of a typical TCP based web agent by 12 % on the average.

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  1. Department of Technology Education, Korea National University of Education, 363-791

    Yong-Jin Lee

  2. School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma, 200 Felgar Street, Norman, OK, 73019, USA

    M. Atiquzzaman

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  1. FOKUS Fraunhofer-Institute for Open Communication Systems, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31, P.O. Box, 10589, Berlin, Germany

    Thomas Magedanz

  2. Multimedia & Mobile Agent Research Laboratory, School of Information Technology & Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa, Canada, 161 Louis Pasteur St. Ottawa, P.O. Box, K1N 6N5, ON, Canada

    Ahmed Karmouch

  3. Mobile Computing and Networking Research Laboratory, (LARIM), Department of Computer Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Station Centre-ville, P.O. Box 6079, H3C 3A7, Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Samuel Pierre

  4. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, P.O. Box

    Iakovos Venieris

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Lee, YJ., Atiquzzaman, M. (2005). Web Agent Supporting Transport Layer Mobility. In: Magedanz, T., Karmouch, A., Pierre, S., Venieris, I. (eds) Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications. MATA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3744. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11569510_1

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