Chapter 6

Mobile Agents for Mobile Services

Ratan K. Ghosh

Contents

6.1  Introduction

6.2  Agents and the Services Offered by Agents

6.2.1  Software Agents

6.2.2  Taxonomy of Agents

6.3  Mobile Agent Technology

6.3.1  Code Mobility

6.3.2  Agent Execution Environment

6.3.3  Execution and Migration

6.4  Application Domains

6.5  Mobile Computing with Mobile Agents

6.6  Disconnected Operation

6.7  Heterogeneous Environment Integration

6.8  Distributed Computing

6.8.1  Advantages over Client–Server Systems

6.9  Agent Security

6.9.1  Protecting Servers ...

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