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Recently mobile agents are used to discover services in mobile ad-hoc network (MANET where agents travel through the network, collecting the dynamically changing service information. But no work addresses how reliable the agents are for this application. However reliability issues are needed to be addressed before mobile agents can be used for a broad range of commercial applications (including service discovery) in MANET. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for estimating the task route reliability of mobile agent systems (MAS), (deployed for discovering services) which are based on the conditions of the underlying wireless network and shows that reliability is almost independent of network size if the MANET provides sufficient bandwidth to support an appreciable no. of agents. Here we also estimate the optimum value of network bandwidth (needed to support the agents) for our application. However the reliability of MAS is highly dependent on link failure probability.
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Neogy, R., Chowdhury, C., Neogy, S. (2011). Reliability Estimation of Mobile Agents for Service Discovery in MANET. In: Nagamalai, D., Renault, E., Dhanuskodi, M. (eds) Advances in Parallel Distributed Computing. PDCTA 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 203. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24037-9_15
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