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This paper reports on extending the Jade agent toolkit with a new mobility service. Jade implements a straightforward mobility model that is based on a pull migration strategy. This strategy is a good choice in specific environments, because only necessary classes are loaded. However, loading classes might cause a network overhead in other scenarios, in particular wide-area networks. In addition, Jade’s code cache cannot distinguish between different versions of the same class, which is a drawback in long-running agent systems. We have implemented a new mobility model, named Kalong, and integrated it as a new mobility service in Jade. The paper also reports on first experiments comparing the migration performance of Jade’s and Kalong’s mobility service.
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Braun, P., Trinh, D., Kowalczyk, R. (2005). Integrating a New Mobility Service into the Jade Agent Toolkit. In: Magedanz, T., Karmouch, A., Pierre, S., Venieris, I. (eds) Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications. MATA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3744. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11569510_34
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