A performance evaluation of the mobile agent paradigm

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Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications table of contents

Denver, Colorado, United States

Pages: 306 - 313

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-238-7

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Daniel Hagimont	Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en, Automatique (INRIA), Sirac Laboratory, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, 655 avenue de l'Europe, 38330 Montbonnot Saint-Martin, France
L. Ismail	Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, (INPG), Sirac Laboratory, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, 655 avenue de l'Europe, 38330 Montbonnot Saint-Martin, France

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SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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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.

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