Characteristics of mobile agents: The following characteristics are typical of a mobile agent and its host:

• An agent must have its own unique identity.
• It must be able to determine what other agents are executing on the agent host (AH).
• It must be able to determine what messages other agents accept and send.
• An AH must allow agents to communicate with each other and itself.
• It must allow multiple agents to coexist and execute simultaneously.
• It must be able to negotiate the exchange of agents.
• It must be able to freeze an executing agent and transfer it to another host.
• It must be able to thaw an agent transferred from another and allow it to resume execution.
• It must prevent agents from directly interfering with each other.