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Using Multiple Communication Channels in a Mobile Agent Platform

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Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications (MATA 2005)

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This paper describes a flexible architecture that enables the adoption of additional communication channels in a mobile agent platform. The architecture extends an already implemented Web Service [1] based mobile agent platform by replacing communication mechanisms with more advanced components, and without modifying the platform’s core components. The proposed architecture uses well-known design patterns to better define its distinguishing parts. Sockets are used as the first alternate to SOAP communication. Finally, the two different communication channels are compared and benchmarked.

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  1. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens,  

    Theodoros E. Athanaileas, Ioannis E. Foukarakis, Dimitra I. Kaklamani & Iakovos S. Venieris

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  1. Theodoros E. Athanaileas
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  1. FOKUS Fraunhofer-Institute for Open Communication Systems, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31, P.O. Box, 10589, Berlin, Germany

    Thomas Magedanz

  2. Multimedia & Mobile Agent Research Laboratory, School of Information Technology & Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa, Canada, 161 Louis Pasteur St. Ottawa, P.O. Box, K1N 6N5, ON, Canada

    Ahmed Karmouch

  3. Mobile Computing and Networking Research Laboratory, (LARIM), Department of Computer Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Station Centre-ville, P.O. Box 6079, H3C 3A7, Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Samuel Pierre

  4. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, P.O. Box

    Iakovos Venieris

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Athanaileas, T.E., Foukarakis, I.E., Kaklamani, D.I., Venieris, I.S. (2005). Using Multiple Communication Channels in a Mobile Agent Platform. In: Magedanz, T., Karmouch, A., Pierre, S., Venieris, I. (eds) Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications. MATA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3744. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11569510_30

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