Distributed applications using mobile agents

摘要

Techniques for providing a distributed application with mechanisms that enable communication among remote nodes without a central server or direct communication links among the remote nodes. A distributed application according to the present techniques includes a set of remote nodes that provide a collective store for a set of information pertaining to the distributed application and a set of mobile agents that carry the information among the remote nodes. The data carrier functions provided by the mobile agents help avoid the cost and expense associated with a communication infrastructure and a central server.