Routing strategy is one of the most important aspects in a mobile agent system, which is a complex combinatorial problem.
Most of current mobile agent systems adopt static routing strategies, which don’t consider dynamic network status and host
status. This is a hinder to the performance and autonomy of mobile agents. Ant Algorithm is good at solving such kind of problems.
After analyzing existing routing strategies of typical mobile agent systems, this paper summarizes factors that may affect
routing strategy of mobile agents, proposes an Ant Algorithm based dynamic routing strategy by using both experience and network
environment such as resource information, network traffic, host workload, presents an acquiring and storing method of routing
parameters and decision rules according to the major characteristics of mobile agent migration. The simulation experiment
is implemented and the results show our dynamic routing strategy can effectively improve the performance and autonomy of mobile
agents.
This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60173051), the Cross Century Excellent Young Teacher
Foundation of the Ministry of Education, and the National 863 High-tech Program (2001AA415210)