期刊名称：International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing
印刷版ISSN：2005-4262
出版年度：2008
卷号：1
期号：1
出版社：SERSC
摘要：Networks are becoming much more complicated in their support of ubiquitous computing. For example, broadband mobile communications, wireless ad-hoc networks, IPv6, and so on. Technology is moving towards mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs), which create temporary networks. The use of mobile devices for composing MANETs is growing, and it is necessary to provide agent service for them. In this paper, we propose a mobile agent platform for supporting MANETs. The proposed algorithms provides agent service among mobile devices, choose an AMS and a DF Service Provider (ADSP) dynamically, maintain the ADSP through another device, and route packets between agents that are unable to communicate. We implement a prototype of these algorithms, based on the Bluetooth protocol. We verify efficient agent management on MANETs, which is not supported by existing mobile agent platforms
