Mobile Agent Peer Discovery and Information Protocol, an advance Peer Discovery Technique in P2P Networks

摘要

Agent Oriented Software Development (AOSD) is an emerging paradigm, which promises to be the future of distributed computing. The distributed systems based on agent based systems and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) can also be error-prone. There also exists another popular paradigm in distributed systems known as Peer-to-Peer (P2P) net-works. In which networks are dependent on some system wide properties, such as hardware plat-form, operating system, communication protocol and programming language. In this paper an over-view of several approaches which use mobile agents for peer and resource discovery in P2P net-works is presented. This paper also proposes a new fault tolerant peer discovery approach which uses self learning mobile agents in a coordinated Multi-Agent based P2P network. These mobile agents can act as a search agent, a wait agent, or a processing agent depending on the varying environ-mental conditions of the network. The proposed approach is based on JXTA, a set of platform and language independent, open peer-to-peer proto-cols. My proposed technique use indirect discovery protocol of JXTA with propagation mechanism and cached advertisement. Multiple clones of mobile agents across the network provide high-level fault tolerant mechanisms for peer discovery.