Software agents are gaining more and more attention in both research and
commercial worlds and are sometimes proposed to be used in mobile
wireless environments. While agents may solve many problems typical to
these environments, agents require special support from underlying
architecture. Mobile agents, perhaps the most known class of agents,
needs special treatment in these environments. Although moving agent's
code from mobile device to stationary host, and running agent there
solves the problem of unexpected disconnections, the migration process
is sometimes too time consuming compared to traditional message passing.
In this paper we discuss about agent communication issues concentrating
on the problems the wireless environment causes, and give some
guidelines how these problems may be solved.
Publishing Information
European Wireless'99/ITG'99. pp. 211-216, October 1999.
