Transportable Agents Walk The Talk Network Fault Diagnosis Transportable agents fulfil their tasks by moving from one machine to another.
Transportable agents can reduce network load in some situations.
In particular, some situations involve policies that limit network traffic. One such situation concerns the propagation of alarms in large self-healing networks. In such networks, accurate diagnosis of faults can not be made without crossing network boundaries to assess fault profiles. The example here shows the use of transportable agents to accomplish fault diagnosis tasks in a large self-healing network. Downloadable example is in the download area.