Class Splitting as a Method to Reduce Migration Overhead of Mobile Agents

Kern, Steffen; Braun, Peter; Fensch, Christian; Rossak, Wilhelm

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30469-2_34

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“…Meanwhile, Kern, Braun, Fensch, and Rossak (2004) propose a more rapid execution of mobile agents through splitting and arranging codes which implement the functionality of agents. A shortcoming of this method is that the execution order of agent functions in each host must be fixed.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Migrating Web Services in Mobile and Wireless Environments

Park

Kim

Lee

2009

International Journal of Web Services Research

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Mobile devices enabled with Web services are being considered as equal participants of the Web services environment. The frequent mobility of devices and the intermittent disconnection of wireless network require migrating or replicating Web services onto adjacent devices appropriately. This article proposes an efficient method for migrating and replicating Web services among mobile devices through code splitting. Specifically, the proposed method splits the source code of a Web service into subcodes based on users' preferences for its constituent operations. The subcode with a higher preference is migrated earlier than others. The proposed method also replicates a Web service to other devices to enhance its performance by considering context information such as network traffic or the parameter size of its operations. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, the effect of the code splitting on migration was analyzed. Furthermore, to show the feasibility of the proposed migration method, three application scenarios were devised and implemented. [Article copies are available for purchase from InfoSci-on-Demand.com]

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Migrating Web Services in Mobile and Wireless Environments

Park

Kim

Lee

2009

International Journal of Web Services Research

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“…The problem of deciding which classes should be pushed or pulled is subject of ongoing research and we experiment with various techniques to enable agents this decision. In [5] we have described a static profiling approach to determine the usage probability based on a byte code analysis. This analysis is comparable to the one we use for class splitting, see Sec.…”

Section: Adaptive Transmission Of Code and Datamentioning

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“…We propose to transmit code on the level of methods to further increase migration efficiency, as we have learned from our experience in programming small to medium mobile agentbased applications that methods of one class are unlikely to have similar execution probabilities. We cannot describe our approach here due to a lack of space and we refer to [5] for a detailed description of our implementation.…”

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Increasing the Migration E.ciency of Java-based Mobile Agents

Braun

Müller

Kowalczyk

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IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology

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Mobile agents were introduced as a design paradigm for distributed systems to reduce network traffic as compared to client-server based approaches, simply by moving code close to the data instead of moving large amount of data to the client. Although this thesis has been proved in many application scenarios, it was also shown that the performance of mobile agents suffers from too simple migration strategies in many other scenarios. In this paper we identify several reasons for mobile agents' poor performance, most of them related to the Java programming language. We propose solutions to all of these problems and present results of first experiments to show the effectiveness of our approaches.

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Towards Adaptive Migration Strategies for Mobile Agents

Kern

Braun

2006

Innovative Concepts for Autonomic and Agent-Based Systems

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Class Splitting as a Method to Reduce Migration Overhead of Mobile Agents

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Migrating Web Services in Mobile and Wireless Environments

Migrating Web Services in Mobile and Wireless Environments

Increasing the Migration E.ciency of Java-based Mobile Agents

Towards Adaptive Migration Strategies for Mobile Agents

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