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An Agent-based Approach to Full Interoperability and Allocation Transparency in Distributed File Systems

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Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications (MATA 2001)

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Abstract

Modern distributed file system realizations offer only partially resource location transparency, resource location independence, fault tolerance, load balancing, heterogeneity, self-configuration, and simplified user access. Traditional portability techniques developed in these systems become unsuited in highly dynamic environments.

To solve these problems within a homogeneous framework we studied and experimented the use of static and mobile agents in a portable environment. In this paper we describe the philosophy, the structure, and the prototype realization of the Agent-based Distributed File System (ADFS). The main properties of this innovative distributed file system are resource location transparency, resource location independence, self-configuration, and heterogeneity of the underlying hardware and operating system architectures.

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  1. Dip. di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, ITALY, 20133

    William Fornaciari, Vincenzo Piuri & Vittorio Zaccaria

  2. Department of Information Technologies, University of Milan, Crema, ITALY, 26013

    Vincenzo Piuri

  3. Cluster Reply Milano, Milano, ITALY, 20139

    Andrea Prestileo

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  1. Mobile Computing and Networking Research Laboratory (LARIM) Department of Computer Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, P.O. Box 6079, Station Centre-Ville, Montreal, (Quebec), Canada, H3C 3A7

    Samuel Pierre

  2. Ericsson Research Canada, 8400 Decarie Blvd., Town of Mount Royal, (Quebec), Canada, H4P 2N2

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Fornaciari, W., Piuri, V., Prestileo, A., Zaccaria, V. (2001). An Agent-based Approach to Full Interoperability and Allocation Transparency in Distributed File Systems. In: Pierre, S., Glitho, R. (eds) Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications. MATA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2164. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44651-6_15

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