Computational Analysis of .NET Remoting and Mobile agent in Distributed Environment

TL;DR

This paper compares the performance of .NET Remoting and Mobile Agents in distributed environments, showing Mobile Agents generally outperform .NET Remoting in speed and network efficiency.

Contribution

It provides a comparative analytical performance evaluation model for Mobile Agents and .NET Remoting, highlighting the advantages of Mobile Agents in distributed systems.

Findings

Mobile Agents have faster computational speed.

Mobile Agents reduce network bandwidth usage.

Mobile Agents incur lower invocation costs.

Abstract

A mobile agent is a program that is not bound to the system on which it began execution, but rather travels amongst the hosts in the network with its code and current execution state (i.e. Distributed Environment).The implementation of distributed applications can be based on a multiplicity of technologies, e.g. plain sockets, Remote Procedure Call (RPC), Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java Message Service (JMS), .NET Remoting, or Web Services. These technologies differ widely in complexity, interoperability, standardization, and ease of use. The Mobile Agent technology is emerging as an alternative to build a smart generation of highly distributed systems. In this work, we investigate the performance aspect of agent-based technologies for information retrieval. We present a comparative performance evaluation model of Mobile Agents versus .Net remoting by means of an analytical approach. A quantitative measurements are performed to compare .Net remoting and mobile agents using communication time, code size (agent code), Data size, number of node as performance parameters in this research work. The results depict that Mobile Agent paradigm offers a superior performance compared to .Net remoting paradigm, offers fast computational speed; procure lower invocation cost by making local invocations instead of remote invocations over the network, thereby reducing network bandwidth.