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Comparing Travelling Design Patterns for Mobile Agent Development Using JADE

Authors:
Nikolaos Karagiannis
Konstantinos Giannakos
Konstantinos Antonis

Keywords: Mobile Agents; Travelling Design Patterns; JADE Application

Abstract:
Mobile agents are autonomous processes that are used to assign various tasks. Those processes are migrating to several nodes to execute those tasks locally, instead of RPCs. Their migration way may be different according to the application type and it is based on a design pattern. Here, we present comparative results of three different travelling design patterns for mobile agents (Itinerary, Branching and Star-shaped) with the use of an application that we developed. Derived results showed that the branching pattern performs better than the other two in terms of turnaround times, whether we use constant size or variable size of answers to mobile agent requests to servers.

Pages: 8 to 13

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: June 24, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4529

ISBN: 978-1-61208-202-8

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from June 24, 2012 to June 29, 2012