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The provision of location tracking for mobile agents is designed to deliver a message to a moving object in a network. Most tracking methods exploit relay stations that hold location information to forward messages to a target mobile agent. In this paper, we propose an efficient location tracking method for mobile agents using the domain-based proxy as a relay station. The proxy in each domain is dynamically determined when a mobile agent enters a new domain. The proposed method exploits the domain-based moving patterns of mobile agents and minimizes registration and message transfer costs in mobile agent systems.
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Song, S., Kwon, T. (2004). Domain-Based Proxy for Efficient Location Tracking of Mobile Agents. In: Jin, H., Gao, G.R., Xu, Z., Chen, H. (eds) Network and Parallel Computing. NPC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3222. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30141-7_30
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