@article{caripe:awareness,
    author = {Wilmer Caripe and George Cybenko and Katsuhiro Moizumi and Robert
Gray},
    title = {Network Awareness and Mobile Agent Systems},
    journal = {IEEE Communications Magazine},
    year = {1998},
    month = {July},
    volume = {36},
    number = {7},
    pages = {44--49},
    publisher = {IEEE Communications Society Press},
    copyright = {IEEE},
    group = {agents, actcomm, cmc},
    url = {http://cmc.cs.dartmouth.edu/papers/caripe:awareness.pdf},
    keyword = {mobile agent, network, network sensing},
    abstract = {Most current computer applications are insensitive to changing
conditions. With the growing demand for wireless. satellite, and other highly
volatile computer communications networks, however, applications that are
robust in the presence of network volatility must be designed and built.
Network-robust applications are of great interest in military situations
today, and we expect that interest to grow in industrial and eventually
consumer environments as well. Mobile agents are one way to realize such
applications, especially when used in a wireless environment. This article
discusses issues and results related to the problem of making computer
applications network-aware and reactive to changing network conditions. It
contains a short overview of our work on mobile agents as well as a tutorial
on network sensing from the agent perspective. Some prototypes of
network-sensing systems and network aware mobile-agent applications are
presented.},
}