A Framework for an Operating System-based Mobile Agent Interoperability
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2013
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International Organization of Scientific Research Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE)
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Mobile agent technology has grown in acceptance over the years for distributed applications, but it is yet to be adopted as ubiquitous solution technique. This is due to its complexity and lack of interoperability. Mobile agent executes on mobile agent platform, these platforms from different vendors are design, and language specific, and are thus non interoperable. In other words mobile agent built on one platform cannot interact with or execute on any other platform. There is a need to provide a common base on which agents from different vendors can interact and interoperate. This work presents a framework for mobile agent interoperability by providing an Embedded Mobile Agent (EMA) system into the Windows Operating System kernel so that it can run as a service; this was done to eliminate the overheads associated with the agent platforms and enhance mobile agents’ interoperability. The targeted OS were Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows7.
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Embedded mobile agent, Interoperability, Mobile agent platform, Operating system service