Mobility

This book brings together in one single resource the leading edge of
research and practice in three areas of mobility: process migration,
mobile computing, and mobile agents. Presented chronologically, the
papers in this book - each written by leading experts in that particular
area - track the development of critical technologies that have
influenced mobility. Introductions by the editors and original afterwords
by many of the papers' authors provide information on implementation
and practical application, technological context, and updates on the
most recent advances.

The book highlights many common challenges and solutions inherent in
various aspects of mobility: infrastructure, scalability, security,
standards, robustness, naming and locating mobile entities, and more.
Individual papers describe specific research and development in each
of the three major areas, covering such topics as:

• An analysis of process migration from the earliest work to
  contemporary commercial systems
  
• Barriers to effective mobile connectivity, mobile IP, and
  ubiquitous computing
  
• Descriptions of various mobile agent systems, such as Telescript,
  Aglets, Agent TCL, and a mobile agent system standard
  (MASIF)

The book also illustrates the evolution of the current technology and the
state of the art of one of the most significant trends in computing.

Table of contents

Preface
Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part II: Mobility in a Cluster: Process Migration

Chapter 2: Process Migration
Chapter 3: Early Work
Chapter 4: Kernel Supported Migration
Chapter 5: User-space Migration
Chapter 6: Migration Policies
Chapter 7: Other Sources of Information

Part III: Physical Mobility: Mobile Computing

Chapter 8: Mobile Computing
Chapter 9: Limits on Connectivity
Chapter 10: Mobile IP
Chapter 11: Ubiquitous Computing
Chapter 12: Other Sources of Information

Part IV: Mobility on the Internet: Mobile Agents

Chapter 13: Mobility on the Internet
Chapter 14: Mobile Agent Systems
Chapter 15: Other Sources of Information

Part V: Summary

Chapter 16: Summary

References