Role of Mobile Agents in the Layered Architecture of Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
Bindiya Bhatia, Mukesh Soni, Parul Tomar · International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security · 2015
In today's world mobile agents and mobile adhoc networks are the two technologies that are contributing towards better connectivity and communicability.When the two technologies used jointly, the interest is increased.Due to the properties like selfconfiguration and infrastructure-less, the mobile ad-hoc networks provide various remarkable features.But the various challenges are also associated with mobile ad-hoc networks like dynamic topology, mobility, energy constraint etc. Mobile agent provides solution to these challenges.A mobile agent is a new way of computer interactions and provides better options for the developers to create applications based on connectivity.Mobile agents move around the ad-hoc networks in a different and better way than the other widespread client server architecture based applications.Due to their mobility and autonomy these agents can perform various functions in mobile ad-hoc networks like topology discovery, routing, key management, congestion control etc.The paper reviews the role of the mobile agents in the mobile ad-hoc networks, and emphasizes its application on the various layers of a layered architecture of mobile ad-hoc networks and concludes its merits as compared to other conventional approaches.