移动代理技术已经成为设计、实现分布式应用的一种极具前景的技术,现有许多移动代理系统已经在研究及商业领域得以实现.但是移动代理系统至今仍然没有得到很广泛的应用,其原因除了使用移动代理系统所涉及的安全性问题之外,另一个主要因素就是缺少一个对移动代理系统性能进行量化评价的基准.本文对于现有的能够对各种不同移动代理系统进行量化评测的基准进行综述,并且讨论哪些因素会对移动代理架构性能产生根本的影响.
Mobile agents system has been emerging as a promising paradigm for the design and implementation of distributed application for a long time now. Many mobile agent system frameworks have been proposed and implemented in research as well as for the commercial purpose. While mobile agents have gathered considerable excitement and interest in the research community still people are hesitant to use them mainly because of two reasons besides others. The first one is the security issues concerned while using mobile agents system and the second one is the lack of work that quantitatively evaluates the effectiveness of the one mobile agent system over another. In this paper we present a survey of the benchmarks available for the quantitatively evaluation of various mobile agent system. We discuss why one mobile agent framework performs better than the other one and discuss factors which are very important for efficiency of mobile agents systems.