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Redundant movements in autonomous mobility: Experimental and theoretical analysis.

Chechina, N., King, P. and Trinder, P., 2011. Redundant movements in autonomous mobility: Experimental and theoretical analysis. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 71, 1278 - 1292.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2011.07.003

Abstract

Distributed load balancers exhibit thrashing where tasks are repeatedly moved between locations due to incomplete global load information. This paper shows that systems of Autonomous Mobile Programs (AMPs) exhibit the same behaviour, and identifies two types of redundant movement (greedy effect). AMPs are unusual in that, in place of some external load management system, each AMP periodically recalculates network and program parameters and may independently move to a better execution environment. Load management emerges from the behaviour of collections of AMPs.The paper explores the extent of greedy effects by simulating collectionsof AMPs and proposes negotiating AMPs (NAMPs) to ameliorate the problem. We present the design of AMPs with a competitive negotiation scheme (cNAMPs), and compare their performance with AMPs by simulation. We establish new properties of balanced networks of AMPs, and use these to provide a theoretical analysis of greedy effects.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:0743-7315
Uncontrolled Keywords:load balancing; autonomous mobile program; mobile agent
Group:Faculty of Science & Technology
ID Code:30273
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:26 Jan 2018 16:30
Last Modified:14 Mar 2022 14:09

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