Title :
A Lightweight and Flexible Mobile Agent Platform Tailored to Management Applications
Author :
Gavalas, Damianos
Author_Institution :
Univ. of the Aegean, Mytilene
Abstract :
Mobile Agents (MAs) represent a distributed computing technology that promises to address the scalability problems of centralized network management. A critical issue that will affect the wider adoption of MA paradigm in management applications is the development of MA Platforms (MAPs) expressly oriented to distributed management. However, most of available platforms impose considerable burden on network and system resources and also lack of essential functionality. In this paper, we discuss the design considerations and implementation details of a complete MAP research prototype that sufficiently addresses all the aforementioned issues. Our MAP has been implemented in Java and tailored for network and systems management applications.
Keywords :
Internet; Java; mobile agents; telecommunication network management; Java; centralized network management; distributed computing technology; distributed management; management applications; mobile agent platform; network management application; systems management application; Computer network management; Environmental management; Information retrieval; Java; Knowledge management; Mobile agents; Prototypes; Resource management; Scalability; Technology management;
Conference_Titel :
Mobile Computing and Wireless Communication International Conference, 2006. MCWC 2006. Proceedings of the First
Conference_Location :
Amman
Print_ISBN :
978-9957-486-00-6
DOI :
10.1109/MCWC.2006.4375222