Coordination and Deployment of Mobile Agents on Dependable Systems

This paper presents a framework for enabling mobile agents to be organized dynamically and autonomously with two unique compositions and interagent interactions on dependable distributed systems. The first enable an agent to contain other agents inside it and migrate to another agent or computer with its inner agents. It provides a powerful approach to composing and deploying large-scale mobile software. The second enable an agent to define its destination according to another agent's location with several policies to support adaptation on distributed systems. It also introduces several higher-level coordinations between mobile agents, e.g., master-slave and redundancy, which are useful to implement dependable systems. This paper also describes a prototype implementation of the framework with mobile agent technology and several applications of it.