BibTeX for a paper by David Kotz at Dartmouth College.
For more information about this paper, visit this web page:
https://kotz.cs.dartmouth.edu/research/gray-scalability-tr/index.html

@TechReport{gray:scalability-tr,
  author =        {Robert S. Gray and David Kotz and Ronald A. {Peterson, Jr.} and Peter Gerken and Martin Hofmann and Daria Chac{\'{o}}n and Greg Hill and Niranjan Suri},
  title =         {{Mobile-Agent versus Client/Server Performance: Scalability in an Information-Retrieval Task}},
  institution =   {Dartmouth Computer Science},
  year =          2001,
  month =         {January},
  number =        {TR2001-386},
  copyright =     {the authors},
  URL =           {https://kotz.cs.dartmouth.edu/research/gray-scalability-tr/index.html},
  abstract =      {Mobile agents are programs that can jump from host to host in the network, at times and to places of their own choosing. Many groups have developed mobile-agent software platforms, and several mobile-agent applications. Experiments show that mobile agents can, among other things, lead to faster applications, reduced bandwidth demands, or less dependence on a reliable network connection. There are few if any studies of the scalability of mobile-agent servers, particularly as the number of clients grows. We present some recent performance and scalability experiments that compare three mobile-agent platforms with each other and with a traditional client/server approach. The experiments show that mobile agents often outperform client/server solutions, but also demonstrate the deep interaction between environmental and application parameters. The three mobile-agent platforms have similar behavior but their absolute performance varies with underlying implementation choices.},
}