Information Retrieval in WPANs with Mobile Agents

Abstract: We propose a mobile agent based information retrieval system for wireless personal area networks. A shopping complex scenario is used to demonstrate the proof of concept. We study a number of ways in which mobile agents can be used to retrieve information for the shoppers from the shop’s databases. The solution we propose is one in which the mobile agents never leave the fixed network that the shops are connected to. They pass only relevant information wirelessly to the user’s mobile devices. This architecture solves most of the problems of security in using mobile agents and limited memory and computation power of the mobile devices