Lecture 17: Mobile Agent and Power Management

Preparation:

1. Ramanathan's Presentation on mobile agent [access limited to UT hosts]
2. Karu's Presentation on power management [access limited to UT hosts]

Lecture Notes:

Homework

Papers (Required)

1. R. Gray, G. Cybenko, D. Kotz, and D. Rus, "Mobile agents: Motivations and State of the Art," In Jeffrey Bradshaw, editor, Handbook of Agent Technology, AAAI/MIT Press, 2001.
2. V. A. Pham and A. Karmouch, "Mobile software agents: an overview," IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 36, No. 7, (July 1998), pp. 26-37.
3. C.-K. Toh, " Maximum battery life routing to support ubiquitous mobile computing in wireless ad hoc networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 138-147, June 2001.
4. B. Chen, K. Jamieson, H. Balakrishnan, and R. Morris, " Span: An energy-efficient coordination algorithm for topology maintenance in Ad Hoc wireless networks," ACM MobiCom'2001.

Other References (Recommended)

1. B. Joy, "Shift from protocols to agents," IEEE Internet Computing , Vol. 4, No. 1, (Jan.-Feb. 2000), pp. 63-64.
2. P. Morreale, "Agents on the move," IEEE Spectrum, Vol. 35, No. 4, (April 1998), pp. 34-41.
3. T. Richardson, Q. Stafford-Fraser, K. Wood, and A. Hopper, "Virtual Network Computing," IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 2, No. 1, Jan/Feb 1998, pp 33-38.
4. Y. Xu, J. Heidemann, and D. Estrin, " Geography-informed energy conservation for Ad Hoc routing," ACM MobiCom'2001.