Finite State Mobile Agent System On The Virtual Organization Modeling And Performance Assessment

A mobile agent is a program that can move through a network under its own control, capable of navigating through the underlying network and performing various tasks at each node independently . Mobile agents provide an effective paradigm for distributed applications, and are particularly attractive in a dynamic network environment involving partially connected computing elements. They locate for the appropriate computation resources, information resources and network resources, combining these resources in a certain host, to accomplish the computing tasks. It is a desirable technology for the next generation network applications.While mobile agents have generated considerable excitement in the research community, and also have many prototype systems , they have not been applied into a significant number of real-world applications. One of the main reasons for this is the lack of quantitative performance evaluations.This paper analyzes the performance of Finite State mobile agent. The finite states refer to the migration, execution, and searching of the mobile agents. In this paper, we propose to deploy the finite state mobile agents on the virtual organization platform. Based on this framework, we introduced a novel corresponding search algorithm together with an evaluation model for the finite state mobile agent. The experiment results based on this evaluation model show the finite mobile agents can achieve satisfying performance under the single agent condition and the multiple agent condition.