A Comparison of Migration Strategy of Mobile Agent System

Mobile Agents are autonomous and proactive software entities which act on behalf on an owner and have the ability to migrate through a heterogeneous network of computer .A mobile agent can also decide when to migrate and which node to access. In the past few years, mobile agent (MA) paradigm has received a great deal of attention. While MAs have generated considerable excitement in the research community, they have not translated into a significant number of real-world applications. One of the main reasons for this is the lack of work that quantitatively evaluates the effectiveness of mobile agents versus traditional approaches. Of course, while the technology is indeed impressive, it also has raised some concerns about migration cost of mobile agent. This paper provides a comparison of migration strategy of mobile agent. Keywords—Mobile Agent, Code Migration, Itinerary, Migration cost, push, pull