Performance comparison of remote procedure calling and mobile agent approach to control and data transfer in distributed computing environment

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-129

  Aderounmu, G A ^a  

^a OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; DATA TRANSFER; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET SWITCHING; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

BERNOULLI RANDOM VARIABLE; MOBILE AGENT;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 1842615125     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2003.10.004     Document Type: Article

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