A Direct Execution Approach to Simulating Mobile Agent Algorithms

Authors:
Xuhui Li;Jiannong Cao;Yanxiang He
Affiliations:
Internet and Mobile Computing Lab, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong&semi/ Data and Knowledge Engineering Lab, State Key Lab of Software Engin ...;Internet and Mobile Computing Lab, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong&semi/ Data and Knowledge Engineering Lab, State Key Lab of Software Engin ...;Parallel and Distributed Computing Lab, School of Computing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China. yxhe@whu.edu.cn
Venue:
The Journal of Supercomputing
Year:
2004

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Abstract

Mobile agent technology 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 has been used for experiments with the prototype.