An article in Mobile Computing and Communications Review that summarizes our results and presents some of our thinking on mobile agents and routing. An applet demo Shows the dynamics of one version of our simulator. At right is a screenshot of our simulator. Nodes in the network are drawn as squares. In our simulation these nodes are moving, so the physical links are constantly breaking and reforming as nodes move in and out of range with each other.
Blue circles represent routing agents travelling around the network, red circles are message agents.
Nodes in white currently have a valid route to a gateway, nodes in grey do not. As you can see, the three nodes in the upper left have no route to a gateway because they are physically out of range. Three nodes in the lower middle also do not have a valid route at the moment, because a link they were relying on has been broken. As the blue routing agents move to those nodes, their routing tables will be updated and they will turn white again. If you want to see animation, we have an applet of an earlier system simulation.