On the performance of employing presence services in P2P-based network management systems

  • Authors:
  • Carlos R. P. dos Santos;Sérgio Luis Cechin;Lisandro Z. Granville;Maria J. B. Almeida;Liane M. R. Tarouco

  • Affiliations:
  • Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS - Brazil;Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS - Brazil;Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS - Brazil;Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS - Brazil;Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS - Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The use of notifications to report the status of underlying communication networks has a crucial impact on the performance of the managed network itself. Presence services, which are implemented using notification messages, have been designed with the objective to provide ways of delivering accurate presence information to interested parties. However, up to now, the use of presence services in the network management discipline has not been properly addressed. Is this paper, we propose an architecture that introduces presence services into traditional network management processes. We evaluated, through a system prototype implementation, the feasibility of using diverse presence services solutions as management tools and compare their performance against to each other. We present the results of a set of experiments regarding the propagation delay of the two main steps of a presence service, i.e., registration and notification. Those results allows a network administrator to choose which presence service solution is more adequate for the administrator's necessities, thus helping to improve the notification process.