Paper Info
Title
Mobile-Agent versus Client/Server Performance: Scalability in an Information-Retrieval Task
Abstract
Building applications with mobile agents often reduces the bandwidth required for the application, and improves performance. The cost is increased server workload. There are, however, few studies of the scalability of mobile-agent systems. We present scalability experiments that compare four mobile-agent platforms with a traditional client/server approach. The four mobile-agent platforms have similar behavior, but their absolute performance varies with underlying implementation choices. Our experiments demonstrate the complex interaction between environmental, application, and system parameters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1007/3-540-45647-3_16
Mobile Agents
Keywords
Field
DocType
system parameter,complex interaction,similar behavior,server performance,mobile agent,mobile-agent application,information-retrieval task,recent performance,scalability experiment,reliable network connection,mobile-agent system,absolute performance,mobile-agent server,mobile-agent software platform,server approach,server workload,mobile-agent platform,information retrieval,client server
Performance ratio,Computer science,Workload,Mobile agent,Bandwidth (signal processing),Client–server model,Distributed computing,Scalability
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
3-540-42952-2
33
2.13
References 
Authors
11
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robert S. Gray1100997.08
David Kotz24292430.36
Ronald A. Peterson3117887.12
Joyce Barton4432.97
Daria A. Chacón5613.85
Peter Gerken6332.47
Martin O. Hofmann7817.77
Jeffrey Bradshaw825865.59
Maggie R. Breedy942048.07
Renia Jeffers101256139.64
Niranjan Suri11730110.34