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Multicast Protocols For Jinni Agents

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We extend the Jinni Agent Programming Infrastructure with a multicast network transport layer. We show that the resulting protocol emulates client/server exchanges while providing high performance multicasting of remote calls to multiple sites. To ensure that our agent infrastructure runs efficiently independently of router-level multicast support, we also describe a blackboard based algorithm for locating a randomly roaming agent for message delivery. Jinni’s orthogonal design, separating blackboards from networking and multi-threading, turns out to be easy to adapt to support a generalization of Jinni’s Linda based coordination model. The resulting system is particularly well suited for building large scale, agent based, IP transparent, fault tolerant, tele-teaching and shared virtual reality applications.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of North Texas, P.O. Box 311366, Denton, Texas, 76203, USA

    Satyam Tyagi, Paul Tarau & Armin Mikler

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Tyagi, S., Tarau, P., Mikler, A. (2001). Multicast Protocols For Jinni Agents. In: Böhme, T., Unger, H. (eds) Innovative Internet Computing Systems. IICS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2060. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48206-7_1

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