This study examines the performances of remote procedure call (RPC) and mobile agents. Under increasing number of nodes, the performances of the two paradigms were considered. The results obtained show that the performances of the two are similar with few nodes or RPC even performed better in some cases. However, mobile agents gain significant advantages over RPC in terms of load overhead and speed when the number of nodes is increased significantly. Apart from savings in terms of load overhead and speed, it has been established also that mobile agents operate well under low communication bandwidth.
RPC, Client/Server, Mobile agent
