Scalability aspects of agent-based naming services

In this paper, we discuss the scalability of the White Pages (WP) service implementation of the Cougaar distributed agent architecture. We give an overview of its design and derive performance equations that provide a model-based estimate for both WP message counts and related message size in bytes. We present experimental results performed on two different agent societies of different scale to validate the performance equations. The experiments confirm the accuracy of the model and demonstrate the scalability of the design of the Cougaar WP naming service