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Research Paper | Computer Science & Engineering | India | Volume 3 Issue 5, May 2014

Fault Tolerance in Mobile Computing using Multi Agent Environment for Electronic-Business Applications

Shiv Kumar ^[16] | Shrawan Kumar ^[4]

Abstract: Mobile agent technology has become a new paradigm for distributed real-time systems because of their inherent advantages. In any distributed system; along with other issues; survivability and fault tolerance are vital issues for deploying mobile-agent systems. E-business becoming a prominent domain for deploying agent technology; it also faces reliability problems due to the failure of agent platform and communication link etc. The reliability is a factor that may affect the performance; availability; and strategy of mobile agent systems. Agent technology is a field of considerable active research. Various classes of agents (e. g. intelligent agents; software agents) have emerged so far. Software agents are useful for distributed systems & electronic commerce. However to fully deploy software agents in practice; a number of challenging issues especially security; fault tolerance and privacy need to be addressed. The scope of this discussion is limited to mobile agents in a multi agent environment for Electronic Business applications. Electronic commerce is one of the most important application areas of mobile agent technology. A secure mobile agent system (SMAS) model is established for e-commerce environment. E-Commerce and M-Commerce can help a company or enterprise to extend its market place to unlimited region

Keywords: Mobile Agents, Trusted Mobile Agents in Multi Agent Environment, Security in E-commerce, Fault tolerance

Edition: Volume 3 Issue 5, May 2014,

Pages: 967 - 972

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