The performance of mobile agent platforms

Author

Silva, Luís Moura ; Soares, Guilherme ; Martins, Paulo ; Batista, Victor ; Santos, Luís

Author_Institution

Dept. de Engenharia Inf., Coimbra Univ., Portugal

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

270

Lastpage

271

Abstract

In the past few years there has been an enthusiastic interest in mobile agent technology and several platforms have been developed. There are some comparisons in the literature about the functionality of some mobile agent systems. However, none of those studies includes a direct comparison between the performance of the platforms. We present the results of an experimental study where we compare the performance of eight Java-based Mobile Agent systems: Aglets, Concordia, Voyager, Odyssey, Jumping Beans, Grasshopper, Swarm and JAMES. The study presents some insights about the performance and the robustness of each platform

Keywords

Java; mobile computing; performance evaluation; software agents; software selection; Aglets; Concordia; Grasshopper; JAMES; Java-based Mobile Agent systems; Jumping Beans; Odyssey; Swarm; Voyager; mobile agent platform performance; mobile agent systems; mobile agent technology; Benchmark testing; Computer crashes; Ethernet networks; Java; Mobile agents; Particle measurements; Read only memory; Robustness; Telecommunication traffic; Vehicle crash testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Agent Systems and Applications, 1999 and Third International Symposium on Mobile Agents. Proceedings. First International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Palm Springs, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0340-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASAMA.1999.805416

Filename

805416