Distributed Communication for Highly Mobile Agents

In this paper, we investigate the need for well-suited remote communication architectures to address communication issues in mobile agent environments. We study the implication of mobility for agent architectures – specifically, ways in which the architecture may facilitate agent communication. We present an architecture for inter-agent communication suitable for remote messaging, agent monitoring, agent tracing, and agent debugging for mobile agent environments. The architecture allows for the dynamic adaptation of communication components. It provides for a seamless and continuous active communication during the agent migration process.