Chapter
8
Evaluation
In this chapter we examine several series of measurements to demonstrate
the performance of our new migration component, Kalong. Our goal is to give
some impression how fast (or slow) migration can be in Java-based mobile
agent toolkits, and how different parameters (e.g., code size, network qual-
ity, code compression, and security enhancements) influence the migration
performance. Finally, we show the effect of the new features of Kalong, which
provide the ability to send data items back to the agent’s home agency, load
code from a code server instead of from the home agency, and the effect of
mirror agencies.
Contents
8.1 Related Work ................................................................................294
8.2 Methodology ...