Abstract
This paper presents a performance evaluation of the mobile agent paradigm in comparison to the client/server paradigm. This evaluation has been conducted on top of the Java environment, using respectively RMI, the Aglets mobile agents platform and a mobile agents prototype that we implemented. The measurements give the cost of the basic mechanisms involved in the implementation of a mobile agent platform, and a comparative evaluation of the two considered models (client/server and mobile agents) through two application scenarios. The results show that significant performance improvements can be obtained using mobile agents.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 306-313 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | SIGPLAN Notices (ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages) |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 1999 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Client/server model
- Distributed applications
- Java
- Mobile agents
- Performance
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design