Performance evaluation of a mobile agent-based platform for ubiquitous service provision

The Virtual Home Environment (VHE) is a very important mechanism in the upcoming mobile telecommunications infrastructure, providing a ubiquitous approach in the delivery of services. The universality of systems like UMTS and WLANs increases the need for efficient introduction of VHE. In this paper, we discuss the adoption of Mobile Agents (MA) for coping with the VHE technical challenges. We present the detailed design of an integrated, open and extensible architecture, by taking into account a variety of use cases and technical alternatives (mobile devices, fixed terminals). Relevant implementations are presented to indicate the feasibility of the technical orientation discussed. Finally, we study and compare the performance of the proposed agent based framework with a conventional solution.     

A personal Web page tailoring toolkit for mobile devices

It is common to browse web pages via mobile devices. However, most of the web pages were designed for desktop computers equipped with big screens. When browsing on mobile devices, a user has to scroll up and down to find the information they want because of the limited screen size. Some commercial products reformat web pages. However, the result pages still contain irrelevant information. We propose a system to personalize users’ mobile web pages. A user can determine which blocks in a web page should be retained. The sequence of these blocks can also be altered according to individual preferences.     

Analysis on a mobile agent-based algorithm for network routing and management

Ant routing is a method for network routing in agent technology. Although its effectiveness and efficiency have been demonstrated and reported in the literature, its properties have not yet been well studied. This paper presents some preliminary analysis on an ant algorithm in regard to its population growing property and jumping behavior. Results conclude that as long as the value max, {i/spl Omega//sub j/|} is known, the practitioner is able to design the algorithm parameters, such as the number of agents being created for each request, k, and the maximum allowable number of jumps of an agent, in order to meet the network constraint.     

基于移动Agent的应用层主动网络安全机制研究

将移动Agent技术和主动网络思想融入下一代网络体系结构的研究中,提出了基于移动Agent的应用层主动网络的概念和框架模型,但同时也引入了传统安全领域中所没有的安全性问题。为解决MALAN（Mobile Agent-based Application Layer Active Network）面临的安全威胁,给出了保证MALAN安全的机制和安全模型。一个良好的安全机制已经成为衡量网络性能好坏的重要指标。     

基于移动代理的网络管理系统的研究与设计

目前简单网络管理协议（SNMP,Simple Network Management Protocol）已经是网络管理软件的实际标准,随着网络技术的日新月异,对网络管理的要求也越来越高,现有的网络管理方法的缺陷也逐渐突出。针对这些问题,提出基于移动代理的网络管理方案,它对移动代理技术和SNMP协议进行了很好的结合,并选用IBM Aglets移动代理开发平台,设计了一种高效的网络管理体系结构。     

基于移动代理的工作流原型研究与设计

快速发展的移动代理和网格技术给工作流提供了新的集成各种分布式资源的计算环境。传统的工作流架构有很多弱点,比如在动态环境中缺少灵活性等。提出了一个集成Web Services,网格,工作流和移动代理技术的分布式工作流架构,可以通过移动代理间的通讯来达到工作流之间协同工作,而且这个架构增强了工作流的灵活性和可靠性,以这个新的模型为基础实现了一个具体的工作流工作站,且可实现系统的安全使用。     

基于移动Agent的信息搜索系统的研究

对传统客户/服务器模式的网络信息搜索系统的缺点进行了分析,将移动Agent技术引入信息搜索领域,阐述了Agent和移动Agent的概念,特点、开发工具,分析了其适合信息搜索的技术特点.提出了一个基于移动Agent的网络信息搜索原型系统(MAISS)来处理网络信息搜索,以实现搜索的高效率,低开销以及智能化,并时其结构及功能,实现机制和关键技术进行了深入的分析和讨论.     

支持移动设备接入Gnutella网络的代理架构研究

针对当前移动设备无法加入Gnutella网络实现文件共享网络的现状,提出一种移动代理Gnutella网络架构的设计方案。利用移动代理作为移动设备的代理加入Gnutella网络,帮助移动设备实现文件的共享功能。架构能有效地减少移动设备的信息流量,并支持移动设备在Gnutella网络中实现可移动性。     

A user model neural network for a personal news service

User modelling has been widely applied to pedantic situations, where we are attempting to infer the user's knowledge. In teaching it is important to know that the user has mastered the elementary concepts before proceeding with the advanced topics. However, the application of user modelling to information retrieval demands a quite different type of user model. Here we construct a user model for browsing, where the user is uncertain of exactly which information he desires. This requires a more inexact and robust user model, that can quickly give guidance to the system. We propose a user model based on neural networks that can be constructed incrementally. Performance of the model shows some promise for this approach. We discuss the advantages and limitations of the approach and its implications for user modelling.     

A mobile agent-based routing model for grid computing

Grid computing is an innovative approach which can optimize compute resources and manage data and computing workloads. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical routing model by using mobile agents to collect and update the dynamic changes of routing information in grid systems, which has been proved to be the only optimal solution that makes inference on the known traffic information and approximates to a unbiased distribution. Our method is fault tolerant, scalable, and relies completely on local information. Extensive simulations show the priority of our algorithm to state-of-art algorithms.     

An agent-based hybrid service delivery for coordinating internet of things and 3rd party service providers

When smart embedded devices become widely used in business and industry, many applications and services will emerge in a new Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. This will initiate new business opportunities in providing these novel applications and services, which integrate efficiently IoT services into business applications. Because IoT takes the reference scenarios further in terms of scale and features offered, it requires the development of suitable, scalable and available service delivery platforms that permit multiple services to coexist between IoT and 3rd party service providers. However, service delivery over IoT infrastructures is a difficult challenge that requires specific new architecture and mechanisms. This paper proposes a system architecture of hybrid service delivery that enables 3rd party service providers to create, deploy, execute, orchestrate, and manage efficiently the running instances of IoT services. In particular, this work focuses on the design and implementation of: agent-based hybrid service exposure, a hybrid service ontology engine crawler, a service enablers container, service-oriented agent lifecycle management, and an agent-mediated service lifecycle coordinator for messages dispatching and transformation between hybrid service exposure and the service enablers container. More specifically, with smart home scenarios, experimental results show that agent-based service delivery approaches could successfully coordinate between IoT and 3rd party service providers.     

An economics-based negotiation scheme among mobile devices in mobile grid

In this paper, we propose an economics-based distributed negotiation scheme among mobile devices in mobile grid. In our model, there are energy negotiation and transactions between buyer devices and seller devices. Dynamic allocation of energy resources in mobile grid is performed through online transactions within markets. Mobile devices can be sellers and buyers that use optimization algorithms to maximize predefined utility functions during their transactions. Seller device agents sell the underlying energy resources of the mobile device. Buyer device agent makes buying decisions within the budget constraints to acquire energy resources. An economics-based negotiation algorithm among mobile devices is proposed. The proposed algorithm decomposes mobile grid system optimization problem into a sequence of two sub-problems. In the simulation, the performance evaluation of economics-based negotiation algorithm is evaluated.     

An agent-based approach towards automatic service composition in ambient intelligence

Systems for Ambient Intelligence environments involve at some stage a service composition task, as a mean of adaptability to the context changes. However, users generally find themselves involved in the composition task, by selecting or deciding what to compose and how. This paper proposes the use of Artificial Intelligent Agents for the automation of the composition task, providing transparency from the user point of view.     

User authentication and undeniable billing support for agent-based roaming service in WLAN/cellular integrated mobile networks

In this paper, a framework of authentication and undeniable billing support for an agent-based roaming service in WLAN/cellular networks interworking networks is proposed. This framework circumvents the requirement of peer-to-peer roaming agreements to provide seamless roaming service between WLAN hotspots and cellular networks operated by independent wireless network service providers. Within the framework, an adaptive authentication and an event-tracking scheme have been developed, which allow the application of undeniable billing service to cellular network even when it still uses a traditional authentication scheme. The proposed modified dual directional hash chain (MDDHC) based billing support mechanism features mutual non-repudiation. Security analysis and overhead evaluation demonstrate that the proposed framework is secure and efficient.