Abstract:
Fault tolerance is essential to the development of reliable mobile agent systems in order to guarantee continuous execution of mobile agents. For this purpose, previous w...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Fault tolerance is essential to the development of reliable mobile agent systems in order to guarantee continuous execution of mobile agents. For this purpose, previous work has proposed fault tolerant protocols for mobile agent execution based on stage construction. However, when previous protocols are applied to a multiregion mobile agent computing environment, the overhead of work such as monitoring, election, voting and agreement is increased. We propose a region-based stage construction (RBSC) protocol for fault tolerant execution of mobile agents in a multiregion mobile agent computing environment. The RBSC protocol uses new concepts of quasiparticipant and substage in order to put together some places located in different regions within a stage in the same region. Therefore, the RBSC protocol decreases the overhead of stage works. Consequently, the RBSC protocol decreases the total execution time of mobile agents.
Published in: 18th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, 2004. AINA 2004.
Date of Conference: 29-31 March 2004
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 24 August 2004
Print ISBN:0-7695-2051-0