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In the last years several prototypes of mobile agent systems were developed. Based on the programming language and available transmission techniques, several ways of migrating a mobile agent has been implemented. We can divide pull and push strategies. A strategy in the first class uses dynamic download techniques to transmit only necessary code, whereas a strategy in the second class always transmits all agent’s code to the next platform. In this paper we give an overview of state-of-the-art migration strategies for mobile agents and compare them with regard to network load and transmission time. We propose a simple mathematical model to show the influence of various network parameters, and present results of first measurements to point out that there is no strategy that in all cases leads to a minimum transmission time.
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Braun, P., Erfurth, C., Rossak, W. (2001). Performance Evaluation of Various Migration Strategies for Mobile Agents. In: Killat, U., Lamersdorf, W. (eds) Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen (KiVS). Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56675-2_31
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