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OTM 2004: On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE pp 1358–1375Cite as

Class Splitting as a Method to Reduce Migration Overhead of Mobile Agents

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Mobile agents were introduced as a new design paradigm for distributed systems to reduce network traffic as compared to client-server based approaches simply by moving code close to the data instead of moving large amount of data to the client. Although this thesis has been proved in many application scenarios, it was also shown that the performance of mobile agents suffers from too simple migration strategies in many other scenarios. This has lead to the development of a new migration protocol, named Kalong, which provides fine-grained transmission of code and data instead of viewing a mobile agent as a single transmission unit. In this paper we report on first results of the application of Kalong to improve the performance of mobile agents by splitting the code of mobile agents. First results show that by using this technique the number of bytes which have to be transferred can be reduced significantly.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2, 07743, Jena, Germany

    Steffen Kern & Wilhelm Rossak

  2. School of Information Science, Swinburne University of Technology, John St, Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122, Australia

    Peter Braun

  3. Department of Computer Science, School of Information and Computer Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697-3425, USA

    Christian Fensch

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Kern, S., Braun, P., Fensch, C., Rossak, W. (2004). Class Splitting as a Method to Reduce Migration Overhead of Mobile Agents. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE. OTM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30469-2_34

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