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Explain in detail the concept of mobile agent

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.

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Mobile Agents:

  • An agent is “an independent software program, which runs on behalf of a network user”.
  • A mobile agent is a program that, once it is launched by a user, can travel from node to node autonomously, and can continue to function even if the user is disconnected from …

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