Summary of mobile agent

The enlargement of networks makes it difficult for the network managers to insure the scalability and efficiency of network. Mobile agent technology is a new distributed computation paradigm. With its potential power, the technology aroused a great interest and experienced a rapid development in the last ten years. Various mobile agent systems were made for different targets and were implemented in different means. It is necessary to explore the current mobile agent systems and to summarize the implementation technologies for further research. In this paper a comprehensive explanation of mobile agent systems is given.The definition and peculiarities of mobile agents,the classification of agents and realization language of mobile agent and the classification of moving and mobile mechanism are stated. Mobile agents' special technology advantage is put forward also, and the prospect of mobile agent is expected.Besides composing of mobile agent systems is stated in this paper, aglets system-IBM's mobile agent workbench is introduced also.