A performance evaluation of the mobile agent paradigm

This paper presents a performance evaluation of the mobile agent paradigm i n comparison to the client/server paradigm. This evaluation has been conduc ted on top of the Java environment, using respectively RMI, the Aglets mobi le agents platform and a mobile agents prototype that we implemented. The m easurements give the cost of the basic mechanisms involved in the implement ation of a mobile agent platform, and a comparative evaluation of the two c onsidered models (client/server and mobile agents) through two application scenarios. The results show that significant performance improvements can b e obtained using mobile agents.