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Facilitating Agent Messaging on PDAs

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Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications (MATA 2002)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 2521))

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Java and middleware are becoming popular on PDAs and small devices with the advent of small-footprint virtual machines. In this paper, we examine agent messaging on small devices based on our experiences with Micro- FIPA-OS, which is an agent toolkit for small devices. Since agents communicate by sending and receiving messages, it is reasonable to expect that the system should minimize communication latency both within a platform and between agent platforms. We present and discuss different deployment options for connecting terminal agents with the fixed network agent community. The performance measurement focuses on messaging both within the PDA device and between the device and another external agent platform.

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  1. Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) and Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, P.O.Box 26, FIN-00014

    Sasu Tarkoma

  2. Sonera Corporation, (Teollisuuskatu 13), FIN-00051, P.O.Box 970, SONERA

    Mikko Laukkanen

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  1. School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, 161, Louis Pasteur, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Ahmed Karmouch

  2. Fraunhofer Institut FOKUS, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31, 10589, Berlin, Germany

    Thomas Magedanz

  3. Departament de Tecnologia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Pg. Circumvallació 8, 08003, Barcelona, Spain

    Jaime Delgado

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Tarkoma, S., Laukkanen, M. (2002). Facilitating Agent Messaging on PDAs. In: Karmouch, A., Magedanz, T., Delgado, J. (eds) Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications. MATA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2521. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36086-7_24

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