Mobile Agents in Networking and Distributed Computing

Jiannong Cao is currently Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include parallel and distributed computing, computer networks, mobile and pervasive computing, fault tolerance, and middleware. He is an active researcher, publishing extensively in the above areas and serving as the editor of well-known journals and the chair of conference organizing committees. Sajal K. Das is a University Distinguished Scholar Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Founding Director of CReWMaN at The University of Texas at Arlington. He has significantly contributed to wireless and sensor networks, mobile and pervasive computing, distributed and cloud computing, smart environments and cyber-physical systems, security and privacy, biological and social networks.

• Foreword ixPreface xiContributors xiiiPart I Introduction 11 Mobile Agents and Applications in Networking and Distributed Computing 3Part II Principles of Applying Mobile Agents 172 Mobile Agent Communications 193 Distributed Security Algorithms for Mobile Agents 414 Mobile Agent Coordination 715 Cooperating Mobile Agents 93Part III Mobile Agent Based Techniques and Applications 1276 Network Routing 1297 Resource and Service Discovery 1618 Distributed Control 1899 Distributed Databases and Transaction Processing 21910 Mobile Agents in Mobile and Wireless Computing 243Part IV Design And Evaluation 26311 Naplet: Microkernel and Pluggable Design of Mobile Agent Systems 26512 Performance Evaluation of Mobile Agent Platforms and Comparison with Client–Server Technologies 299Index 323