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Computational Intelligence in Data Mining - Volume 1 pp 131–141Cite as

Mobile Agent Communication Protocols: A Comparative Study

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Mobile Agent is considered as a striking technology for distributed applications. Its mobility feature makes it difficult to track and consequently performing communication between them becomes difficult. In multi mobile agent environment, a reliable communication is still a big challenge. In this paper, we have addressed the pros and cons of the existing different Mobile Agent communication protocols with their limitations. This paper also presents their parametric comparative study in tabular form.

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  1. Department of CIT, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, 248007, India

    Ajay Rawat

  2. Department of Computer Science and Application, DIT University, Dehradun, 248009, India

    Rama Sushil

  3. Department of Computer Application, G.B. Degree College, Rohtak, 124001, India

    Lalit Sharm

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    Lakhmi C. Jain

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Sambalpur, Odisha, India

    Himansu Sekhar Behera

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Rawat, A., Sushil, R., Sharm, L. (2015). Mobile Agent Communication Protocols: A Comparative Study. In: Jain, L., Behera, H., Mandal, J., Mohapatra, D. (eds) Computational Intelligence in Data Mining - Volume 1. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 31. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2205-7_13

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