AST-A METHOD OF AGENT NAMING AND LOCALIZATION

Agent naming and localization is the key technology in mobile agent. How it is implemented affects the performance of the whole agent system deeply. A new method named agent shadow tracing is proposed to implement the agent naming and localization, after analyzing three approaches in agent naming and localization. This method treats agents as some source of the host that generates it, and assign a shadow to the agent so that other agent and program can communicate with it through the shadow when the agent moves around the network. Also discussed are the security of AST and its advantages comparing with other methods. This method avoids some known disadvantages in the existing methods.