gcs-ma: a group communication system for mobile agents

	gcs-ma: a group communication system for mobile agents
	Xu Wei ; Cao Jiannong ; Jin Beihong ; Li Jing ; Zhang Liang
刊名	Journal of Network and Computer Applications
	2007
卷号	30 期号:3 页码:1153-1172
关键词	Mobile agent Group communication Totally ordered multicast Fault tolerance
中文摘要	Reliable messaging is a key component necessary for mobile agent systems. Current researches focus on reliable one-to-one message delivery to mobile agents. But how to implement a group communication system for mobile agents remains an open issue, which is a powerful block that facilitates the development of fault-tolerant mobile agent systems. In this paper, we propose a group communication system for mobile agents (GCS-MA), which includes totally ordered multicast and membership management functions. We divide a group of mobile agents into several agent clusters,and each agent cluster consists of all mobile agents residing in the same sub-network and is managed by a special module, named coordinator. Then, all coordinators form a ring-based overlay for interchanging messages between clusters. We present a token-based algorithm, an intra-cluster messaging algorithm and an inter-cluster migration algorithm to achieve atomicity and total ordering properties of multicast messages, by building a membership protocol on top of the clustering and failure detection mechanisms. Performance issues of the proposed system have been analysed through simulations. We also describe the application of the proposed system in the context of the service cooperation middleware (SCM) project.
收录类别	EI,SCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000247723300019
公开日期	2010-07-27
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://124.16.136.157/handle/311060/2899]
专题	软件研究所_软件工程技术研究开发中心 _期刊论文
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Xu Wei,Cao Jiannong,Jin Beihong,et al. gcs-ma: a group communication system for mobile agents[J]. Journal of Network and Computer Applications,2007,30(3):1153-1172.
APA	Xu Wei,Cao Jiannong,Jin Beihong,Li Jing,&Zhang Liang.(2007).gcs-ma: a group communication system for mobile agents.Journal of Network and Computer Applications,30(3),1153-1172.
MLA	Xu Wei,et al."gcs-ma: a group communication system for mobile agents".Journal of Network and Computer Applications 30.3(2007):1153-1172.