Designing Dependable Mobile Computing Systems with Mobile Agents: Overview of dependability analysis and system dependability formulation of wireless applications using mobile agents

Chandreyee Chowdhury

ISBN 10: 3659915904 / ISBN 13: 9783659915901

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2016

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252 pages. 8.66x5.91x0.57 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # 3659915904

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Title: Designing Dependable Mobile Computing ...

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing

Publication Date: 2016

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis:

Dependability is an important metric for evaluating system performance of both wireless networks and mobile agents operating on these networks. This book deals with dependability analysis of mobile agent based mobile computing system in wireless networks and investigates ways of improving it. Here dependability is viewed as a combination of availability and reliability while security affects both. The effectiveness of agent paradigm over message passing is also shown in terms of system reliability. In order to avoid the huge computational complexity arising out of dynamic topology, all dependability estimation models are developed using Monte Carlo simulation method. It is observed that agents can effectively operate even when the underlying network is unreliable. Effect of environmental parameters on dependability analysis of the system is shown which are not encountered in traditional reliability analysis. Distributed trust based reputation schemes are proposed to protect the nodes and agents from both active and passive attacks. Further, reinforcement learning techniques are applied to the mobile agents for deciding about a suitable migration strategy in hostile conditions.

About the Author:

Chandreyee Chowdhury is a faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Jadavpur University, India. She received Ph. D in Engineering from Jadavpur University in 2013 and M.E in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University in 2005. Her research interests include Wireless Sensor Networks and Mobile Crowd-Sensing.