Evaluating the performance of mobile agents in network management

Author

Rubinstein, MarcelO Gonçalves ; Duarte, Otto Carlos Muniz Bandeira

Author_Institution

Univ. Fed. do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

386

Abstract

Currently, most network management systems are centralized and therefore, they can not scale when the size or the complexity of the network increases. This paper aims to investigate mobile agent scalability in network management, in order to find when mobile agents improve the management efficiency. We compare the mobile agent performance with the SNMP one in several simulations. Results show that the mobile agent performs better when the number of managed network elements ranges between two bounds and that the mobile agent is less sensitive to changes on a general topology

Keywords

network topology; protocols; simulation; software agents; telecommunication computing; telecommunication network management; SNMP; general topology; managed network elements; management efficiency; mobile agent scalability; mobile agents; network complexity; network management systems; performance evaluation; simulations; Bandwidth; Communication system traffic control; Intelligent agent; Intelligent networks; Mobile agents; Network topology; Performance evaluation; Process control; Scalability; Telecommunication network topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1999. GLOBECOM '99

Conference_Location

Rio de Janeireo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5796-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1999.831668

Filename

831668