Mobile agent location management in global networks

WSEAS Transactions on Computers

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 697-710

  Patel, R B ^a   Mastorakis, Nikos ^b   Garg, K ^c  

^a MAHARISHI MARKANDESHWAR DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b HELLENIC NAVAL ACADEMY   (Greece)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Location management; Mobile agent; Search protocol and search update protocol; Update protocol

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

LOCATION MANAGEMENT; MOBILE AGENT; SEARCH PROTOCOL; SEARCH-UPDATE PROTOCOL; UPDATE PROTOCOL;

MOBILE COMPUTING;

EID: 22944487316     PISSN: 11092750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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