Authors:
Qusay H. Mahmoud
;
Zhujun Xu
and
Xining Li
Affiliation:
University of Guelph, Canada
Keyword(s):
Mobile agents, mobile devices, wireless devices, security, scalability
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Telecommunications
;
Wireless and Mobile Computing
;
Wireless and Mobile Technologies
;
Wireless Information Networks and Systems
Abstract:
Most mobile devices such as cell phones suffer from limited computational resources as well as a small display size in which to present information to the user. In addition, the wireless environment that devices operate in suffers from limited bandwidth and frequent network disconnections. Mobile agents, which as software entities that are capable of roaming the network, do not need much bandwidth. This makes mobile agents a promising mechanism for the mobile devices. In this paper, we report on recent research that has been carried out in the area of mobile agents for mobile devices; we classify the several agent platforms that have been developed according to their underlining approaches and we discuss their advantages and disadvantages as well as limitations and concerns for embedded mobile agent platforms. In addition, we present directions for future direction in this area. To conclude, limitation and concerns for embedded mobile agent platforms are discussed.