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Performance Evaluation of an Allocation Strategy for TINA Compliant Mobile Agents Supporting PCS in a Multi-retailer Environment

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Intelligence in Services and Networks Paving the Way for an Open Service Market (IS&N 1999)

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This paper presents a strategy for the support of Personal Communication Services in TINA-compliant systems through the use of mobile agents. The paper reflects the point of view of the EC/ACTS research project DOLMEN which has developed OSAM, an Open Service Architecture for fixed and Mobile environments. After introducing the principle of retailer federation in a multi-domain environment, the paper analyses how federation can be established to support the migration of agents acting on behalf of the user within the network. A strategy for mobile agent allocation is presented and its effectiveness is evaluated according to two different performance metrics: the signalling load on the network and the average response time for service requests.

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  1. Istituto di Informatica e Telecomunicazioni, Università di Catania, V.le A. Doria, 6 - 95125, Catania, Italy

    Alfio Lombardo, Pietro Nicosia, Sergio Palazzo, Marina Samarotto & Giovanni Schembra

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  1. Alcatel Research, Francis Wellesplein 1, B-2018, Antwerpen, Belgium

    Han Zuidweg

  2. European Commission, Rue de la Loi 200, B-1049, Bruxelles, Belgium

    Mario Campolargo

  3. Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, C/ Jordi Girona, 1-3, E-08034, Barcelona, Spain

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Lombardo, A., Nicosia, P., Palazzo, S., Samarotto, M., Schembra, G. (1999). Performance Evaluation of an Allocation Strategy for TINA Compliant Mobile Agents Supporting PCS in a Multi-retailer Environment. In: Zuidweg, H., Campolargo, M., Delgado, J. (eds) Intelligence in Services and Networks Paving the Way for an Open Service Market. IS&N 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1597. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48888-X_39

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