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Mobile agent technology has been proposed for a variety of applications. Fault-tolerance is fundamental to the further development of mobile agent applications. Fault-tolerance prevents a partial or complete loss of the agent. Simple approaches such as checkpointing are prone to blocking, replications scheme is expensive since it has to maintain multiple replicas. In this paper, a new approach rooted from checkpointing is proposed. This scheme can guarantee to detect and recover most failure scenarios in mobile agent systems, even if there occurs machine failure.
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Jin, G., Ahn, B., Lee, K.D. (2004). A Fault-Tolerant Protocol for Mobile Agent. In: Laganá, A., Gavrilova, M.L., Kumar, V., Mun, Y., Tan, C.J.K., Gervasi, O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004. ICCSA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3045. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24767-8_104
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