A PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK FOR MOBILE-AGENT SYSTEMS

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Table of Contents

A PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK FOR MOBILE-AGENT SYSTEMS

Summary

Acknowledgements

Overview

New Computing Paradigms

Objectives

The Need for Performance Evaluation

Evaluation of Mobile-Agent Systems

Overview

A Performance Analysis Spectrum

A Performance Analysis Framework

Basic Elements of M.A. Platforms

Software Models

Client-Agent-Server Model

M.A. Application Frameworks

Overview

Benchmarking MA Systems

Micro-benchmarks

Micro-benchmark Parameters

Places and Channels

Metrics

Micro-benchmark Experiments

Micro-benchmark Experiments

Agent Creation-Local (Win 95)

AC-L Benchmark: Average Timings

AC-L: Rates of Agent Creation

AC-L Benchmark (Win NT)

Agent Launching Benchmark (Win95)

AL Benchmark: Average Timings

AL: Rates of Agent Launching

Agent Launch Benchmark (WinNT)

Agent Launching: Summary

MSG: One-way Messaging

MSG: Rate of Message Dispatch

An Assessment of Micro-benchmarks

More Conclusions

Author: Dikaiakos

Email: mdd@ucy.ac.cy

Home Page: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/mdd/