Locating mobile agents in a wide distributed environment

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 844-864

  Di Stefano, Antonella ^a,b   Santoro, Corrado ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Location protocols; MASIF; Mobile agents; Naming; Wide distributed systems

Indexed keywords

MOBILE AGENTS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PACKET NETWORKS; ROUTERS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036669131     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2002.1028440     Document Type: Article

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