Coordinating Mobile Agents through the Broadcast Channel
In distributed applications based on mobile agents, coordination and synchronization of the actions executed by a team of mobile agents are difficult
tasks.
The main difficulty comes from the fact that coordination requires
the agents to interact with each other in spite of their dynamically
changing locations.
In this work we implemented a mechanism for coordinating mobile agents which
handles the problem of locating and addressing members in a group of
mobile agents.
This mechanism, which we called Broadcast Channel, implements
reliable broadcasts of messages to a group of mobile agents
independently of their current locations. The Broadcast Channel is for
agents implemented in IBM's ASDK.
Download the Broadcast
Channel Source Code [57KB,zip]
Download Example 1
(Distributed Mutual Exclusion) [18KB,zip]
Download Example 2
(Manager-Workers) [23KB,zip]
Last modified: Thu Jun 29 07:55:24 BRT 2000