A performance analysis framework for mobile agent systems

Abstract

In this paper we propose a novel performance analysis ap- proach that can be used to gauge quantitatively the performance char- acteristics of different mobile-agent platforms. We materialize this ap- proach as a hierarchical framework of benchmarks designed to isolate performance properties of interest, at different levels of detail. We iden- tify the structure and parameters of benchmarks and propose metrics that can be used to capture their properties. We present a set of micro- benchmarks, comprising the lower level of our hierarchy, and examine their behavior when implemented with commercial, Java-based, mobile agent platforms. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001.