DocumentCode
983835
Title
Performance analysis of mobile agents
Author
Holt, A. ; Huang, C.-Y. ; Monk, J.
Author_Institution
Univ. of Waikato
Volume
1
Issue
3
fYear
2007
fDate
6/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
532
Lastpage
538
Abstract
The results of a performance analysis of mobile agents in a distributed network environment are presented. Analytical models are developed and used to compare the performance of carrying out a simple management function with mobile agents (MA) or SNMP (simple network management protocol). An examination is made of how delay is affected by the size of the management domain and how each method behaves in both a local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) environment. For large domains, optimal performance is obtained if the mobile agents´ size is bounded, and this may require sharing the management task among a small number of mobile agents
Keywords
computer network management; local area networks; mobile agents; wide area networks; LAN; WAN; distributed network environment; local area network; mobile agent; performance analysis; wide area network;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Communications, IET
Publisher
iet
ISSN
1751-8628
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/iet-com:20050490
Filename
4247341
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