BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
ID:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR2004-499
ENTRY:: June 09, 2004
ORGANIZATION:: Dartmouth College, Computer Science
TITLE:: Mobile Agents Simulation with DaSSF
TYPE:: Technical Report (paper)
REVISION:: 1
AUTHOR:: Dubrovsky, Nikita E
DATE:: June 2004
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, email <reports@cs.dartmouth.edu>
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, write to
       Technical Report Librarian
       Department of Computer Science
       Dartmouth College
       6211 Sudikoff Laboratory
       Hanover, NH 03755-3510
       USA
RETRIEVAL:: PDF at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2004-499.pdf
ABSTRACT:: 
Mobile agents are programs that can migrate from machine to machine in a network of computers and have complete control over their movement. Since the performance space of mobile agents has not been characterized fully, assessing the effectiveness of using mobile agents over a traditional client/server approach currently requires implementing an agent system and running time-consuming experiments.
  This report presents a simple mobile-agent simulation that can provide quick information on the performance and scalability of a generic information retrieval (IR) mobile-agent system under different network configurations. The simulation is built using the DaSSF and DaSSFNet frameworks, resulting in high performance and great configuration flexibility. This report also implements a real D'Agents mobile-agent IR system, measuring the performance of the system. A comparison of these real-world performance results and those given by the simulation suggest that the simulation has good accuracy in predicting the scalability of a mobile-agent system. Thus this report argues that simulation provides a good way to quickly assess the performance and scalability of an IR mobile-agent system under different network configurations.
NOTE:: 
Senior Honors Thesis.  Advisor: Bob Gray.
END:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR2004-499