An Improved Mobile Agent Communication Mechanism in Enterprise Information System
Ning Wang, LI Xiao-wen · 2008
There are a large number of hosts in the enterprise information system, and these hosts are located in various domains. To reduce the cost of communication traffic and avoid the waste of network resources, an improved mobile agent communication mechanism is presented, it bases on the mailbox, and each domain has a own management server which is responsible for the management and analysis of the transfer objects. During the transfer process, the Agent keeps in the same domain with the mailbox together, a copy of the mailbox would be created to save and relay the messages. In addition, the messages are divided into two types: real-time and non-real-time, to make the mailbox to keep synchronization and reduce the possibility of message tracking. The analysis shows that, in the multiple domains and hosts system, this communication mechanism improves the reliability and independence of mobile agent, and realizes the location transparency and high effectiveness of the system.