Telematics services through mobile agents

Abstract

OSGi is considered as one of the fundamental technologies underpinning telematics services, and has attracted both academic and commercial interest. Because of a desire and mandates to deliver telematics services on OSGi environments, professionals have identified a key issue that need to be addressed: the service delivery would suffer from the situation of low bandwidth and unstable links. In this work, we benefit from the inherent characteristics of mobile agents and develop OSGi-Based mobile agents to address this challenge. Furthermore, the mobile agents are enhanced with a Java bytecode extractor which makes a mobile agent partially reside in a contactless smart card for service invocations, and with a risk-enabled reputation model which supports a mobile agent for information filtering to reduce the size of data that need to be carried. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.