Using mobile agents for network performance management

Bohoris, C; Pavlou, George; Cruickshank, Haitham

doi:10.1109/noms.2000.830419

Cited by 43 publications

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“…The application is a network management system for a cluster computing environment consisting of three sub-networks and each of the sub-networks has from four to eight processor elements distributed geographically. 4 The management system deploys agent pools at one cluster of each sub-network and offers several task agents and navigator agents. Since each task agent can contain codes to perform both information retrieval and filtering, it can only carry relevant information.…”

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Building and Selecting Mobile Agents for Network Management

Satoh

2006

J Netw Syst Manage

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This paper presents a framework for reusable mobile agents for network management in the sense that they are independent of either particular networks or applications. The framework enables a mobile agent to be composed from two layered components, which are mobile agents. The former is a carrier of the latter over particular networks independent of any management tasks and the latter defines management tasks performed at each host independently of any networks. The framework also offers a mechanism for matchmaking the two components. Since the mechanism is formulated on a process algebra approach, it can accurately select the appropriate itinerary component to perform management tasks at hosts that the tasks want to visit over networks. The framework provides a methodology for easily developing and operating mobile agents for traveling among multiple sub-networks to perform their management tasks at all of the nodes that they visit. This paper also describes the framework, its prototype implementation, and a practical application.

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“…There have been several research projects to develop mobile agent-based network management [3,4,9,11].…”

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Building and Selecting Mobile Agents for Network Management

Satoh

2006

J Netw Syst Manage

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“…There have been several attempts to develop mobile agentbased network management, for example see [3], [2], [8], [13], [14]. Typically, a mobile agent for network management must visit multiple hosts to perform its task, so the itinerary of such an agent can affect its success and efficiency.…”

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Building reusable mobile agents for network management

Satoh

2003

IEEE Trans. Syst., Man, Cybern. C

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Abstract-Mobile agents can migrate among nodes to perform a set of management tasks at each of the visited nodes. Existing mobile agent-based network management systems often assume that their mobile agents are designed to work in particular networks to raise the efficiency of agent migration among multiple nodes. Unfortunately, such mobile agents cannot be reused in different networks. This paper proposes a framework where a mobile agent for network management is composed of two kinds of software components, a itinerary part and a behavioral logic part. Both components are implemented as mobile agents. The former is a carrier designed for particular networks, and it can efficiently navigate other mobile agents among nodes in its target network. The latter defines management tasks performed at each node independently of any local network. This framework allows a mobile agent for network management to be reused in various networks without being modified. A prototype implementation of this framework and its application were built on a Java-based mobile agent system.

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“…This is because this proposal is presented for the management of backbone and core networks, which typically have much bandwidth and they are reliable enough. Therefore it would not be able to take advantage of the especial characteristics of the mobile agents [11].…”

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Automatic self-configuration of the logical network using distributed software agents

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IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 2004. GLOBECOM '04.

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-In this paper, we present a system for dynamic network resource configuration in environments with bandwidth reservation. The proposed system is completely distributed and automates the mechanisms for adapting the logical network to the offered load. The system is able to dynamically manage a logical network such as a Virtual Path network in ATM or a Label Switch Path network in MPLS or GMPLS. The system design and implementation is based on a Multi-Agent System (MAS), which make the decisions of when and how to change a logical path. Despite the lack of a centralised global network view, results show that MAS manages the network resources effectively, reducing the connection blocking probability and, therefore, achieving better utilisation of network resources. We also include details of its architecture and implementation.

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Using mobile agents for network performance management

Cited by 43 publications

References 8 publications

Building and Selecting Mobile Agents for Network Management

Building and Selecting Mobile Agents for Network Management

Building reusable mobile agents for network management

Automatic self-configuration of the logical network using distributed software agents

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