Mobile Agent Connection Establishment and Management (CEMA)—Message Exchange for Pervasive Computing Environments

Abstract

Pervasive computing is an emerging technology that offers new possibilities to distributed computing and computer networking; it employs a wide variety of smart, ubiquitous devices throughout an individual's working and living environment. Mobile agents are software entities that can migrate between servers (mobile agent environments) of the network accomplishing various tasks on the behalf of their owners. The objective of this paper is to describe a test and prototyping environment for experimenting with mobile agents in pervasive environments. A prototype environment for a novel, proactive infrastructure is described for mobile agent assisted pervasive computing. In addition, a new message passing algorithm is provided for mobile agent connection establishment and management (CEMA). Simulation results show the performance of the proposed approach.