Evaluation of fault tolerant mobile agents in distributed systems

International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-60

  Hamidi, Hojatollah ^a   Vafaei, Abbas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Checkpointing; fantomas; fault tolerant; mobile agent; network management; transactional agent

Indexed keywords

FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

CHECKPOINTING SCHEMES; COOPERATING AGENTS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; FANTOMAS; FAULT TOLERANT SCHEMES; MOBILE AGENT SYSTEM; RELIABLE EXECUTION; TRANSACTIONAL AGENTS;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 70249106692     PISSN: 15483657     EISSN: 15483665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jiit.2009010103     Document Type: Article

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