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Mobile Agent Based Message Communication in Large Ad Hoc Networks Through Co-operative Routing Using Inter-agent Negotiation at Rendezvous Points

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Distributed Computing – IWDC 2005 (IWDC 2005)

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The wide availability of mobile devices together with the technical possibility to form ad-hoc networks paves the way for building highly dynamic communicating communities of mobile users. A challenge is how to deliver messages in such networks incurring least routing overhead. Cooperative routing is a mobile-agent assisted team approach, which utilizes a set of fixed cluster head nodes to provide proper coordination and cooperation for exchanges and sharing of messages in the team. Our routing strategy aims at reducing routing overheads, message traffic and unnecessary random node visits in the network for delivering data. The main benefit provided by cooperative routing is considerable network traffic reduction at high load. We highlight the main components of the system and discuss the agent life cycle in detail together with the parameters and strategies governing the migration of agents, their merging and termination.

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  1. Dept. of Information Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

    Parama Bhaumik

  2. MIS group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India

    Somprakash Bandyopadhyay

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

    Ajit Pal

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60607, Chicago, Illinois

    Ajay D. Kshemkalyani

  3. Computer Science and Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, 721 302, Kharagpur, WB, India

    Rajeev Kumar

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 721 302, Kharagpur, India

    Arobinda Gupta

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Bhaumik, P., Bandyopadhyay, S. (2005). Mobile Agent Based Message Communication in Large Ad Hoc Networks Through Co-operative Routing Using Inter-agent Negotiation at Rendezvous Points. In: Pal, A., Kshemkalyani, A.D., Kumar, R., Gupta, A. (eds) Distributed Computing – IWDC 2005. IWDC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3741. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11603771_62

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