Mobile agents - Enabling technology for active intelligent network implementation

IEEE Network

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 53-60

  Breugst, Markus ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Magedanz, Thomas ^a,c,f,g  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c GMD Res Ctr for Open Commun Syst   (Germany)

^d Management in Open Systems   (Germany)

^e Mobile Agent Syst I ^*  (Germany)

^f IKV++ GmbH   (Germany)

^g IEEE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; SWITCHING SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

ACTIVE INTELLIGENT NETWORK; INTELLIGENT NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; MOBILE AGENTS; MOBILE INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY;

INTELLIGENT NETWORKS;

EID: 0032067096     PISSN: 08908044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/65.690963     Document Type: Article

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