Comparing the performance of mobile agent systems: a study of benchmarking

Silva, L. M.; Soares, Guilherme M.; Martins, P.; Batista, V.; Santos, Luís Eduardo

doi:10.1016/s0140-3664(99)00237-6

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“…In [4] , authors refer to some performance evaluations [19,20] and comparisons [21,22] for mobile agent systems. These performance evaluations only consider one-hop migrations for non Java-based systems.…”

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Mobile Agents in Heterogeneous Networks: A Look on Performance

Patel¹,

Goel²

2006

J. of Computer Science

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Mobile agents can be seen as a new paradigm for distributed computing. One characteristic of mobile agents is their autonomy and pro-activity. This article present a framework designed on top of PMADE (Platform for Mobile Agent Distribution and Execution) to support our research in this domain. Our framework consists of three modules. The Map Module collects information on the available network of agent hosts (AHs) and a mobile agent is able to locate services within the network with the help of this module. Furthermore, the framework provides a Route estimating module and an optimization module, which minimizes network load. These modules support a fast and efficient navigation through the network, which is an environment with an inherently dynamical behavior. The basis for this work is the PMADE Domain Service, which is a hierarchical arrangement of AHs that groups AHs into a federation of networked local clusters, so called domains. This paper also evaluates the basic concepts and the actual modules of the developed framework and made some measurements to characterize the modules quality and to identify problems

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Mobile Agents in Heterogeneous Networks: A Look on Performance

Patel¹,

Goel²

2006

J. of Computer Science

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“…Braun [6], as the father of Tracy, refers to some performance evaluations ( [19], [20]) and comparisions ( [21], [22]) for mobile agent systems. These performance evaluations only consider one hop migrations for non Java-based systems.…”

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A first look at the performance of autonomous mobile agents in dynamic networks

Erfurth

Döhler

Rossak³

2004

37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2004. Proceedings of The

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Mobile agents can be seen as a new paradigm for distributed computing. At Friedrich Schiller University, we have developed our own mobile agent system, called Tracy. Tracy is implemented in Java 2. One characteristic of mobile agents is their autonomy and pro-activity. We designed a framework on top of Tracy to support our research in this domain. Our framework consists of three modules. The Map Module collects information on the available network of agent servers (agencies). By this means, a mobile agent is able to locate services within the network. Furthermore, the framework provides a route planning module and an optimization module, which minimizes network load respectively transmission time. These modules support a fast and efficient navigation through the network, which is an environment with an inherently dynamical behavior. The basis for this project is the Tracy Domain Service, which is a hierarchical arrangement of agent servers that groups agencies into a federation of networked local clusters, so called domains.The focus of the paper is to evaluate the basic concepts and the actual modules of this framework. We made some measurements to characterize the modules' quality and to identify problems. Furthermore, we take a first look at the possible performance enhancement of mobile agents which are using the framework.

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“…[13][14][15] The theories, concepts, frameworks, platforms, standards and interoperability of mobile agents and their application in network management, wireless sensor networks, mobile devices, e-commerce, emergency response and other areas have been discussed in details in. [12,[16][17][18] In a network, a software agent can be dispatched from a server to any workstations to monitor software tools available without the system administrator physically moving from one system to another. In this research, an agent application is developed to autonomously monitor and evaluate software tools in a computer network.…”

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Development of agent-based system for monitoring software resources in a network environment

Akinyokun

Ekuewa²,

Arekete³

2014

AIR

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Mobile agent is becoming an emerging tool for monitoring and managing computer networks. Its usefulness in this regard emanates from its ability to communicate with other agents and devices, and navigate a computer network to collect data and take actions autonomously. In this research, an investigation of the use of an agent-based system to monitor the software tools on the nodes of a computer network is carried out. The proposed framework adopts a multi-agent system approach combining a static server agent with a mobile monitor agent which move around and extract data from each node via the server agent. The system was tested in a computer network environment which is characterized by a Windows NT. The programming and mobility infrastructure is the C#, an object-oriented and multifunctional programming scheme. The performance of the proposed agentbased system and Remote MONitoring (RMON) system are simulated and the results obtained show the cost of service, query time and delay overhead is lower in the agent-based system than that of RMON.

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Comparing the performance of mobile agent systems: a study of benchmarking

Cited by 26 publications

References 4 publications

Mobile Agents in Heterogeneous Networks: A Look on Performance

Mobile Agents in Heterogeneous Networks: A Look on Performance

A first look at the performance of autonomous mobile agents in dynamic networks

Development of agent-based system for monitoring software resources in a network environment

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