Enhancing the performance of mobile agent based network management applications

Michalas, A; Kotsilieris, T; Kalogeropoulos, S; Karetsos, G; Sidi, M; Loumos, V

dc.contributor.author	Michalas, A	en
dc.contributor.author	Kotsilieris, T	en
dc.contributor.author	Kalogeropoulos, S	en
dc.contributor.author	Karetsos, G	en
dc.contributor.author	Sidi, M	en
dc.contributor.author	Loumos, V	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T02:41:52Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T02:41:52Z
dc.date.issued	2001	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/30642
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dc.subject.other	Bandwidth	en
dc.subject.other	Internet	en
dc.subject.other	Network protocols	en
dc.subject.other	Quality of service	en
dc.subject.other	Telecommunication links	en
dc.subject.other	Mobile agents	en
dc.subject.other	Network management	en
dc.subject.other	Mobile telecommunication systems	en
dc.title	Enhancing the performance of mobile agent based network management applications	en
heal.type	conferenceItem	en
heal.publicationDate	2001	en
heal.abstract	Mobile Agent Technology (MAT) seems to be a promising approach for achieving flexible and decentralised Network Management. A system independent Mobile Agent platform is used in order to control the roaming and downloading of the required management code, in the form of mobile agents, onto the network devices. A management task such as the configuration or monitoring of a specific QoS parameter related to a particular application may require that a Mobile Agent (MA) or a set of MAs should visit several network nodes. In this paper we present an approach for enhancing the performance of a Mobile Agent based Network Management System by monitoring and controlling the communication paths between the network management applications and the mobile agents. In particular we show that when a mobile agent should act on a set of nodes, the time required to perform a management task is decreased if for the sequence by which the nodes will be visited we take into account the workload on them, i.e. at any time to try to visit the less loaded ones.	en
heal.journalName	IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications - Proceedings	en
dc.identifier.spage	432	en
dc.identifier.epage	437	en