Reducing network latency by application streaming

In the advent of mobile code, network latency becomes a critical factor. This paper investigates application streaming, a technique that exploits parallelism between loading and execution of mobile code to reduce network latency. It allows applications to migrate from host to host without sacrificing execution time during the migration phase and it allows the application to start its job at the receiving host much earlier. The feasibility of the technique has been validated by implementing prototype tools in Java and the Borg mobile agent environment.