Direct execution simulation of mobile agent algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Jiannong Cao;Xuhui Li;Sou King;Yanxiang He

  • Affiliations:
  • Internet and Mobile Computing Lab, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong;Internet and Mobile Computing Lab, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong and Parallel and Distributed Computing Lab, Computer School, Wuhan Univer ...;Internet and Mobile Computing Lab, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong;Parallel and Distributed Computing Lab, Computer School, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

  • Venue:
  • ISPA'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Parallel and distributed processing and applications
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Mobile agent has been applied to develop the solutions for various kinds of parallel and distributed computing problems. However, performance evaluation of mobile agent algorithms remains a difficult task, mainly due to the characteristics of mobile agents such as distributed and asynchronous execution, autonomy and mobility. This paper proposes a general approach based on direct execution simulation for evaluating the performance of mobile agent algorithms by collecting and analyzing the information about the agents during their execution. We describe the proposed generic simulation model, named MADES, the architecture of a software environment based on MADES, and a prototype implementation. A mobile agent-based distributed load balancing algorithm is used for experiments with the prototype.