In order to improve the efficiency of service migration in mobile edge computing (MEC), and obtain higher quality of service and better user experience, we take mobile agent technology, instead of container, as the application component hosting technology. The advantages of mobile agent include small size, high flexibility, autonomy, and suitability for heterogeneous environments. For 5G communications, how to offer cross‐platform support and deal with frequent roaming of mobile nodes is our main concern. Therefore, this paper provides a service migration framework using mobile agent in MEC environment and performance evaluation. Experiments with tasks of different complexity show that in terms of efficiency of service migration, mobile agent technology obviously outperforms container technology. The main contributions of this paper include the following: (1) we solve the problem that too many auxiliary modules were used in the container architecture, (2) we use the agent container and the resource manager (RM) for performance evaluations to investigate the differences between mobile agent and container technology, and (3) we use the decision tree to confirm the execution cost of each node so as to analyze why the mobile agent responds to migration commands slowly.

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移动边缘计算中基于移动代理的服务迁移

为了提高移动边缘计算（MEC）中的服务迁移效率，并获得更高的服务质量和更好的用户体验，我们采用移动代理技术代替容器作为应用程序组件托管技术。移动代理的优点包括体积小，灵活性高，自治性高以及对异构环境的适用性。对于5G通信，我们主要关注的是如何提供跨平台支持以及如何应对移动节点的频繁漫游。因此，本文提供了在MEC环境下使用移动代理进行服务迁移和性能评估的框架。对不同复杂性任务的实验表明，就服务迁移效率而言，移动代理技术明显优于容器技术。