Mobility Patterns: An Alternative Approach to Mobility Management

Software mobile agents provide an efficient method for reducing data traffic and latency in mobile software applications. In this paper, we identify that current systems use two basic methods for facilitating a request for mobility. We define Mobility Patterns, and we argue that there are another 6 mobility patterns that can improve data traffic or latency if applied in specific cases. We also present the principles of a system whose purpose is to assign the most efficient mobility pattern to each act of interaction dynamically, based on pertinent runtime information of the interacting agents. Finally, we contribute the design of two novel algorithms to be used for deciding the best mobility pattern for each case.