Study of Mobile Agents as a Tool for Load Balancing in Distributed Environment

Distributed system may be considered as a collection of resources shared by different users. Distributed systems provide methods for sharing and aggregation of resources. Resources may be storage systems, computer machines, hardware devices and other specialized devices. Load balancing is a technique which can be used to improve the performance of distributed system by allowing load migration for the purpose of efficient resource utilization. In this paper, use of mobile agent is proposed as a tool for load balancing Keywordsmobile agent; load balancing; distributed systems; mobile agent cloning