A novel fault-tolerant execution model by using of mobile agents

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 423-432

  Qu, Wenyu ^a,b   Kitsuregawa, Masaru ^b   Shen, Hong ^c   Shan, Zhiguang ^d  

^a DALIAN MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d STATE INFORMATION CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Life expectancy; Migration time; Mobile agents; Population distribution

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; FAULT TOLERANCE; INTERNET; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; DIFFERENT EFFECTS; EXECUTION MODELS; EXPONENTIAL EXPANSIONS; FAULT-TOLERANT; FAULT-TOLERANT MODELS; KEY PARAMETERS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MIGRATION TIME; MOBILE AGENT TECHNOLOGIES; ON DEMANDS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SECURE SYSTEMS;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 59249086359     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: 10958592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2008.02.008     Document Type: Article

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