Empirical Evaluation of Traffic Performance of Inter-Agent Communication Systems with Mobile Agents
Masato Noto, Masanobu Numazawa, Masahito Kurihara · IEEJ Transactions on Electronics Information and Systems · 2004
In this paper we study the basic characteristics of traffic performance of agent communication systems, focusing upon the mobility of agents. First, we will briefly introduce several application models in terms of when, where and for what purposes the agent should be moved. Then we will focus on the model in which the mobility is used for trying to reduce the total communication cost among the agents and develop a simple model on top of some kind of distributed constraint satisfaction model. Finally, we will show the empirical results obtained from the simulation and discuss how the mobility could affect the overall performance of this type of systems.