Internet service monitoring with mobile agents

Author

Günter, Manuel ; Braun, Torsten

Author_Institution

Bern Univ., Switzerland

Volume

16

Issue

3

fYear

2002

Firstpage

22

Lastpage

29

Abstract

The Internet Engineering Task Force standardizes new IP technologies such as Differentiated Services and IP security that allow Internet service providers to offer new and enhanced network-level services. There is a need for a measurement infrastructure to monitor services, especially for support of end-to-end services across the Internet. The infrastructure should provide a safe way for customers to monitor the enhanced properties of the services they use. Also, providers should be able to use the infrastructure to ensure provider collaboration. We implemented a mobile-agent-based monitoring infrastructure for new and enhanced IP services

Keywords

Internet; business communication; computerised monitoring; distributed programming; quality of service; security of data; software agents; telecommunication computing; telecommunication security; transport protocols; DiffServ; Differentiated Services; IP security; IP technologies; ISP; Internet Engineering Task Force; Internet service monitoring; Internet service providers; QoS guarantees; measurement infrastructure; mobile agents; monitoring infrastructure; network infrastructure; network-level services; provider collaboration; quality of service; virtual private networks; Application software; Collaboration; IP networks; Java; Mobile agents; Monitoring; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Virtual private networks; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Network, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0890-8044

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MNET.2002.1002996

Filename

1002996