A quantitative comparison of graph-based models for Internet topology
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Patterns of intelligent and mobile agents
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
MAP: design and implementation of a mobile agents' platform
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems
Communications of the ACM
Is it an Agent, or Just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents
ECAI '96 Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Agents III, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
Mobile agents in distributed network management
Communications of the ACM - A game experience in every application
Network management platform based on mobile agents
International Journal of Network Management
Mobile agents for network management: when and when not!
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Building and Selecting Mobile Agents for Network Management
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Low-cost itineraries for multi-hop agents designed for scalable monitoring of multiple subnets
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Intelligent agents: an emerging technology for next generation telecommunications?
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 2
Exploiting agent mobility for large-scale network monitoring
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
System structure for software fault tolerance
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Full mobile agent interoperability in an IEEE-FIPA context
Journal of Systems and Software
Promoting the development of secure mobile agent applications
Journal of Systems and Software
Analytical Model to Evaluate the Performance of Mobile Agents in a Generic Network Topology
Journal of Network and Systems Management
A secure migration process for mobile agents
Software—Practice & Experience
Direction-based adaptive data propagation for heterogeneous sensor mobility
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
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The mobile agent (MA) technology has been proposed for the management of networks and distributed systems as an answer to the scalability problems of the centralized paradigm. Management tasks may be assigned to an agent, which delegates and executes management logic in a distributed and autonomous fashion. MA-based management has been a subject of intense research in the past few years, reflected on the proliferation of MA platforms (MAPs) expressly oriented to distributed management. However, most of these platforms impose considerable burden on network and system resources and also lack of essential functionality, such as security mechanisms, fault tolerance, strategies for building network-aware MA itineraries and support for user-friendly customization of MA-based management tasks. 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 optimized for network and systems management applications. The paper also presents the evaluation results of our prototype in real and simulated networking environments.