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Integrating mobile agents into the mobile middleware

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Mobile agents are a new paradigm for distributed computing that is especially well suited for mobile computing over global wireless networks. This paper describes the approach taken in the ACTS On TheMove project to integrate a mobile agent system into the Mobile Application Support Environment (MASE), a middleware for mobile computing. In this project, an existing mobile agent system was adapted for the requirements of mobile computing. We present the changes that had to be made to the agent system to adapt it to the wireless communication. We also present some of the application areas where a mobile agent system is suitable for mobile communication. We describe an agent based pre-fetcher application where an agent operaes disconnected from the user on the fixed network and prepares web pages for the anticipated next connection of the user using the Quality-of-Service trading functions available in MASE.

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  1. Sony International (Europe) GmbH, Telecommunication Research and Development Europe(TRDE), Stuttgarter Str. 106, 70736, Fellbach, Germany

    Ernö Kovacs & Klaus Röhrle

  2. Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Munich, Germany

    Matthias Reich

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Kovacs, E., Röhrle, K. & Reich, M. Integrating mobile agents into the mobile middleware. Personal Technologies 2, 68–74 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01324936

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