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Building applications with mobile agents often reduces the bandwidth required for the application, and improves performance. The cost is increased server workload. There are, however, few studies of the scalability of mobile-agent systems. We present scalability experiments that compare four mobile-agent platforms with a traditional client/server approach. The four mobile-agent platforms have similar behavior, but their absolute performance varies with underlying implementation choices. Our experiments demonstrate the complex interaction between environmental, application, and system parameters.
The authors are listed in alphabetical order within institutional groups. The contact author is David Kotz <dfk@cs.dartmouth.edu>.
Dartmouth was supported by the DARPA CoABS Program (contract F30602-98-2- 0107) and by the DoD MURI program (AFoSR contract F49620-97-1-03821).
Lockheed-Martin was supported by the DARPA CoABS Program (contract F30602- 98-C-0162) and by the DoD MURI program (AFoSR contract F49620-97-1-03821).
IHMC/UWF was supported by the DARPA CoABS Program (contract F30602-00- 2-0577 and by the Office of Naval Research (contract N00014-01-1-0577).
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Gray, R.S. et al. (2001). Mobile-Agent versus Client/Server Performance: Scalability in an Information-Retrieval Task. In: Picco, G.P. (eds) Mobile Agents. MA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2240. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45647-3_16
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