Mobile agents for location independent computing

1. ABSTRACT Mobile agents are well adapted to the domain of mobile computing. However, designing a mobile agent environment destined to function in a mobile computing environment raises some problems. These problems are related to the frequent connections and disconnections of such devices. In addition, these mobile devices need to retrieve mobile agents sent out by them during the previous connections. In this paper we describe MAGENTA[l], a mobile agent environment we have designed and implemented, focussing on mechanisms it provides for supporting mobile computing.