Design and Evaluation of a Fault-Tolerant Mobile-Agent System

M.R. Lyu;  Xinyu Chen;  Tsz Yeung Wong

doi:10.1109/mis.2004.40

Design and Evaluation of a Fault-Tolerant Mobile-Agent System

IEEE Intelligent Systems ◽

10.1109/mis.2004.40 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 19 (5) ◽

pp. 32-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

M.R. Lyu ◽

Xinyu Chen ◽

Tsz Yeung Wong

Keyword(s):

Mobile Agent ◽

Fault Tolerant ◽

Agent System

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Improvement of Temporal-Replication Mechanism in Mobile Agent System Fault-Tolerant Model

2007 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security Workshops (CISW 2007) ◽

10.1109/cisw.2007.4425550 ◽

2007 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Wang-Xiao Yun ◽

Ye-Jian Nan ◽

Huang-Guo Jin ◽

Yu-Mei He

Keyword(s):

Mobile Agent ◽

Fault Tolerant ◽

Agent System ◽

Replication Mechanism

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Lazy Agent Replication and Asynchronous Consensus for the Fault-Tolerant Mobile Agent System

Lecture Notes in Computer Science - NETWORKING 2004. Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; Mobile and Wireless Communications ◽

10.1007/978-3-540-24693-0_87 ◽

2004 ◽

pp. 1060-1071 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Taesoon Park ◽

Ilsoo Byun ◽

Heon Y. Yeom

Keyword(s):

Mobile Agent ◽

Fault Tolerant ◽

Agent System ◽

Agent Replication

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An Efficient Forward and Backward Fault-Tolerant Mobile Agent System

2008 Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications ◽

10.1109/isda.2008.324 ◽

2008 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jong-Shin Chen ◽

Hong-Da Shi ◽

Ching-Mu Chen ◽

Zeng-Wen Hong ◽

Pei-Lin Zhong

Keyword(s):

Mobile Agent ◽

Fault Tolerant ◽

Agent System

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RELIABILITY CONCEPTS FOR MOBILE AGENTS

International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems ◽

10.1142/s0218843098000179 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 07 (04) ◽

pp. 355-382 ◽

Cited By ~ 48

Author(s):

MARKUS STRASSER ◽

KURT ROTHERMEL

Keyword(s):

Fault Tolerance ◽

Electronic Commerce ◽

Mobile Agent ◽

Mobile Agents ◽

Fault Tolerant ◽

Agent Technology ◽

System Management ◽

Agent System ◽

Travel Plan ◽

Node Failures

The use of mobile agent technology has been proposed for various fault-sensitive application areas, including electronic commerce and system management. A prerequisite for the use of mobile agents in these environments is that agents have to be executed reliably, independent of communication and node failures. In this article, we present two approaches improving the level of fault-tolerance in agent execution. The introduction of an itinerary concept allows to specify an agent's travel plan flexibly and provides the agent system with the possibility to postpone the visit of currently unavailable nodes or to choose alternative nodes in case of node failures. The second approach is a recently proposed fault-tolerant protocol to ensure the exactly-once execution of an agent. With this protocol, agents are preformed in stages. Each stage consists of a number of nodes. One of these nodes executes the agent while the others monitor the execution. After a summary of this protocol, we focus on the construction of stages. In particular, we investigate how the number of nodes per stage influences the probability of an agent to be blocked due to failures and which nodes should be selected when forming a stage to minimize the protocol overhead.

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