Enhanced Migration Scheme for Mobile Agent Routing

One of the key challenges faced in a Data Communication Network (DCN) is in managing the network. DCN consists of heterogeneous network, therefore controlling and managing the traffic in these networks is complex and difficult. One of the efficient routing schemes is the application of mobile agents in managing and optimizing the network resources. Deployment of mobile agents in a network decentralizes and distributes the network management functions and proactively carries out administrative tasks thereby improving the reliability and quality of service. They also reduce the bandwidth and the traffic need for the network management. Although, mobile agent reduces traffic, but the increase in the number of mobile agents and those with random route on the network consumes network bandwidth, introduces too much update overhead to host, and therefore, leads to a traffic deadlock. This book provides the need for improvement on the migration scheme of the mobile agent routing in a DCN to increase the effectiveness and efficiency in terms of greater throughput, smaller delay and less packet loss.