Design of Adaptive Communication Mechanism for Ubiquitous Multiagent Systems
Agent-based middleware that has abilities of adaptation to dynamically changing environments is a significant direction for system developments in ubiquitous computing environments. In this paper, we focus on the communication infrastructure of agent-based middleware in ubiquitous computing environm...
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Published in | Journal of Information Processing Vol. 18; pp. 175 - 189 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Information Processing Society of Japan
2010
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Summary: | Agent-based middleware that has abilities of adaptation to dynamically changing environments is a significant direction for system developments in ubiquitous computing environments. In this paper, we focus on the communication infrastructure of agent-based middleware in ubiquitous computing environments. We propose an adaptive communication mechanism between agent platforms, which can select communication schemes flexibly, based on properties of inter-agent communication and resource status. We designed the proposed mechanism and implemented a prototype system. Furthermore, we performed an initial experiment by using the prototype system on a network environment with two types of access network. We confirmed that the dynamic selection of an inter-platform communication scheme works effectively according to the change of network resource status. From the experimental results, we confirmed that efficiency is improved 5% and stability is improved 22% when compared to that of the traditional mechanism. |
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ISSN: | 1882-6652 1882-6652 |
DOI: | 10.2197/ipsjjip.18.175 |