A Performance Analysis Framework for Mobile-Agent Systems
Revised Papers from the International Workshop on Infrastructure for Multi-Agent Systems: Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems
Performance Evaluation of Mobile Agents: Issues and Approaches
Performance Engineering, State of the Art and Current Trends
Using mobile agents for temporary disconnection from wireless network
EATIS '07 Proceedings of the 2007 Euro American conference on Telematics and information systems
Location-dependent query processing: Where we are and where we are heading
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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Wireless mobile computing breaks the stationary barrier and allows users to compute and access information anywhere and anytime. However, this new freedom of movement does not come without new challenges. The mobile computing environment is constrained in many ways. Mobile elements are resource-poor and unreliable. Their network connectivity is often achieved through low-bandwidth wireless links. Furthermore, connectivity is frequently lost for variant periods of time. The difficulties raised by these constraints are compounded by mobility that induces variability in the availability of both communication and computational resources. These severe restrictions have a great impact on the design and structure of mobile computing applications and motivate the development of new computing models.To this end, a number of extensions to the traditional distributed system architectures have been proposed [SaPE99]. These new software models, however, are static and require a priori set up and configuration. This in effect limits their potential in dynamically serving the mobile client; the client can not access a site where an appropriate model is not configured in advance. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, the paper shows how an implementation of the proposed models using mobile agents eliminates this limitation and enhances the utilization of the models. Second, new frameworks for Web-based distributed access to databases are proposed and implemented.