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A Performance Comparison of Mobile Agents and RPC

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SOFSEM’99: Theory and Practice of Informatics (SOFSEM 1999)

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The issue of Mobile Agent performance, and in particular, scalability is one that, while receiving attention in a speculative sense, has not been addressed to any great extent in empirical studies. This paper provides an insight into the requirements that an MA system has on a server’s resources, comparing them to the requirements for an equivalent RPC solution. The basis of the study is an experiment that measures timing and system load information (CPU, memory, network and disk IO) as an MA and RPC solution performs a simple task.

The most basic form of RPC is synchronous. There are many implementations of RPC, some of which are asychronous. For the purpose of the study all comparisons between RPC and other technologies will be based on the synchronous form of RPC.

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  1. Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Computing Science, Göteborg, Sweden

    David Rutter

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  1. DCIT, s.r.o, J. Martího 2/407, 162 02, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    Jan Pavelka

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Utrecht, Padualaan 14, 3584, CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Gerard Tel

  3. Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Miroslav Bartošek

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Rutter, D. (1999). A Performance Comparison of Mobile Agents and RPC. In: Pavelka, J., Tel, G., Bartošek, M. (eds) SOFSEM’99: Theory and Practice of Informatics. SOFSEM 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1725. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47849-3_32

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