Title :
A mobile agent´s effects on file service
Author :
Spalink, Tammo ; Hartman, John H. ; Gibson, Garth A.
Author_Institution :
Princeton Univ., NJ, USA
Abstract :
Implementing an application using mobile agents might or might not improve its performance. The authors consider the effect of moving an agent application from a client to a file server. Under what circumstances does application performance improve, and does it come at the expense of other applications using the same server?
Keywords :
client-server systems; file servers; mobile computing; software agents; agent application; application performance; file server; file service; mobile agent effects; Costs; File servers; Hardware; Mobile agents; Network servers; Performance analysis; Radio access networks; Runtime; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;
Journal_Title :
Concurrency, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/4434.846195
