A new mobile agent based scheme for self-organizing real-time service dissemination and collection in mobile ad hoc networks

Abstract

A new service discovery scheme using mobile agents for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) we have proposed are effective for dissemination and collection of service information because mobile agents can migrate among nodes in spite of topology change in MANETs. In the proposed scheme, mobile agents migrate to one of neighboring nodes in which the number of services collected in the predefined time (called service collection time) is the lowest. This paper investigates the property of the proposed mobile agent based scheme for realtime service dissemination and collection in MANETs through simulation experiments. The simulation results show that the service collection time has the impact on the dissemination time of the proposed scheme in imbalanced location of services, and that the proposed scheme can achieve real-time service dissemination and collection by autonomously adjusting the service collection time.