Mobile Agents in Networking and Distributed Computing

Foreword ix

Preface xi

Contributors xiii

Part I Introduction 1

1 Mobile Agents and Applications in Networking and Distributed Computing 3

Part II Principles of Applying Mobile Agents 17

2 Mobile Agent Communications 19

3 Distributed Security Algorithms for Mobile Agents 41

4 Mobile Agent Coordination 71

5 Cooperating Mobile Agents 93

Part III Mobile Agent Based Techniques and Applications 127

6 Network Routing 129

7 Resource and Service Discovery 161

8 Distributed Control 189

9 Distributed Databases and Transaction Processing 219

10 Mobile Agents in Mobile and Wireless Computing 243

Part IV Design And Evaluation 263

11 Naplet: Microkernel and Pluggable Design of Mobile Agent Systems 265

12 Performance Evaluation of Mobile Agent Platforms and Comparison with Client-Server Technologies 299

Index 323

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