Integrating Encrypted Mobile Agents with Smart Spaces in a Multi-agent Simulator for Resource Management

摘要

The existence of advanced smart devices andrelated technologies such as pervasive computing, mobilewireless communications, sensor networks and agenttechnologies have supported the proliferation of smartspaces. In this paper, we present the design of “Bosthan”, amulti-agent-based simulation tool that manages resourcesconsumption in multi-inhabitants smart spaces. Bosthan isbuilt on the top of ActorNet mobile agent platform tosimulate different smart space topologies with varyingnumbers of residents. It allows strategies for resolution ofconflicts between mobile agents, and for preservinginhabitants’ anonymity and untraceability inside the smartspaces, to be studied. Bosthan will help us compare theefficiency of using mobile agents to allow smart spaces to actpro-actively and maintain anonymity and data privacy inmulti-inhabitants environments.