Using mobile agent strategies for reducing the response time in network management

Author

Rubinstein, Marcelo G. ; Duarte, Otto Carlos M B ; Pujolle, Guy

Author_Institution

Grupo de Teleinf. e Automacao, Univ. Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

278

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate mobile agent tradeoffs in network management by performing management task simulations. The analysis focuses on the performance of two unload strategies in order to reduce the response time for the mobile agent: in the first approach, the mobile agent returns to the management station; in the second one, the mobile agent just sends data to the management station, both after visiting a fixed number of nodes. Results show that the response time decreases by 62, and 64%, for the first and second strategies, when compared with gathering all data without returning or sending these data to the management station before finishing the task

Keywords

computer network management; protocols; software agents; management task simulations; mobile agent strategies; network management; response time; unload strategies; Access protocols; Computer network management; Computer networks; Delay; Energy management; Intelligent networks; Mobile agents; Network servers; Network topology; Performance analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Technology Proceedings, 2000. WCC - ICCT 2000. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6394-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCT.2000.889213

Filename

889213