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Mobility management is a necessity in highly dynamic and large-scale Mobile Agent (MA) networks, especially in a multi-region environment, in order to control and communicate with agents after launching. In this paper, we have proposed a hierarchical mobile agent monitoring mechanism using Mobile Monitor Agents (MMA’s). The mobile agent system is implemented in XML. This XML based system provides a system independent, standardized, effective and customized solution for application development. Distributing MMA dynamically solves the scalability issue of Centralized monitoring mechanism, and still has the advantages of Hierarchical monitoring mechanism to decrease the information processing bottleneck issue at centralized server. The MMA takes care of a certain number of agent servers and it reduces the traffic in the centralized server by bypassing queries from the agent servers under its control. XML helps to decrease the amount of data transferred and the processing part with the Java parsers is not transferred in network. There is less transfer of data because only data representation is migrated.
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Valliyammai, C., Thamarai Selvi, S. (2011). A Hierarchical Mobile Agent Monitoring Mechanism with XML-Based Mobile Agents. In: Wyld, D.C., Wozniak, M., Chaki, N., Meghanathan, N., Nagamalai, D. (eds) Trends in Network and Communications. WeST NeCoM WiMoN 2011 2011 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 197. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22543-7_8
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