Tracking agent for communication between multiple cooperative agents
Goro Kunito, Kiyoharu Aizawa, Mitsutoshi Hatori · Electronics and Communications in Japan (Part I Communications) · 2001
In recent years, attention was drawn to mobile agents that perform assigned tasks while moving around the network. Mobile agents can efficiently use network resources by moving around the network in a dynamic manner. In this paper, we propose a novel arrangement for interagent communications required for the cooperation between multiple mobile agents performing the same task. In order to support communication between multiple mobile agents, a so-called tracking agent is used that implements a seamless interagent communication so that the agents do not have to know their mutual positions and movement details. It is expected that due to mobility of the tracking agent, it will be possible to reduce delays in message transmission in the case of localized mobile agents. © 2001 Scripta Technica, Electron Comm Jpn Pt 1, 84(5): 11–20, 2001