Abstract
The mobile agent approach is suitable for deploying large-scale parallel processing over distributed hosts. However, if the number of mobile agents is very large and the dispatch is processed in a serial way, it can become a bottleneck that impacts the efficiency as a whole. In this paper, we first briefly present a mobile agent based framework for Internet marketplaces enabling parallel processing. Then we present and discuss several hierarchical dispatch models where the dispatch of multiple mobile agents can be processed in parallel over different hosts. In the best case, the time complexity for dispatching n mobile agents is O(log2 n). Discussions of these models are taken on the basis of theoretical analysis and experiments.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings - 3rd International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2002 |
| Place of Publication | Los Alamitos, CA |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Pages | 61-68 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Volume | 2002-January |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 0769515002, 9780769515007 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2002 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 3rd International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2002 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: 8 Jan 2002 → 11 Jan 2002 |
Other
| Other | 3rd International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2002 |
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| Country/Territory | Singapore |
| City | Singapore |
| Period | 8/01/02 → 11/01/02 |
Keywords
- Computer science
- Concurrent computing
- Dispatching
- Distributed computing
- Electronic commerce
- Internet
- Large-scale systems
- Mobile agents
- Parallel processing
- Performance analysis