A New Communication Mechanism Based on Virtual Agent for Mobile Agent

Mobile agent technology can be used as one of the key technologies for new componentware frameworks. Communication mechanism of mobile agent plays a very important role in mobile agent systems. Communication mechanism could satisfy some requirements, such as location-transparency, reliability and high-efficiency. This paper introduces the current various communication algorithms and mechanisms for mobile agent, and summarizes their advantages and disadvantages. Subsequently, a new communication mechanism for mobile agent with the conception of virtual agent is put forward in this paper. This communication mechanism could implement the synchronism of communication and migration to a great extent, which could greatly improve the communication efficiency and reliability of the whole net

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