Won Ho Chung, Hee Jung Nam

The KIPS Transactions:PartD, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 439-450, Aug. 2001
10.3745/KIPSTD.2001.8.4.439,   PDF Download:

Abstract

Mobile agent is one of the promising ways of overcoming network load and latency. It is also a new software paradigm including those concepts of client/server, applet/servelet, and code-on-demand. In this paper, a new mobile agent concept with flexible reply scheme is proposed, which can deal with embarrassing situations when replying results should be accomplished in various distributed applications. For example, they are 1) a burden of bulky result, 2) a need of different reply scheme dependent on work type, 3) connection failure to the target node, and 4) a need of fast migration to next node to keep the itinerary. Regarding the source node, there may be another situation that it wants to be aware of whether its work is completed or not. Three kinds of reply schemes are proposed for dealing flexibly with such situations. They are based on priority reply list where nodes to be replied are stored according to their priorities. An experimental supply chain management model using the proposed reply schemes is designed and implemented. It is one of good distributed applications appropriate for our reply schemes, because it requires different reply schemes according to work types and it is important to gather required information in time.

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