Reliable message delivery for mobile agents: Push or pull?

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 577-587

  Cao, Jiannong ^a   Feng, Xinyu ^a,b   Lu, Jian ^b   Chan, Henry C B ^a   Das, Sajal K ^c  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSAGE PASSING; MOBILE AGENTS; NETWORK TRAFFIC; RELAY COMMUNICATION MODEL; RELIABLE MESSAGE DELIVERY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 4444353668     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2004.826824     Document Type: Article

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