Mobile agent based online examination system

This paper presents a case study namely mobile agent based online examination system and the roles of mobile agents used in the system. The system provides the infrastructure for conducting computer-based examination which the candidates may be spread over in large areas. The system aims to map the real world examination system and concentrates the full stage of the examination from question setting to answer evaluation. By implementing this system using mobile agent gives us several advantages like scalability, flexible structuring, dynamic extensibility, push-pull modes of information dissemination, evaluation of subjective question, and transparency to varying communication channels, application layer multicasting, network latencies and dynamic content delivery.