Mobile agents - enabling technology for active intelligent network implementation
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
MomentA: Service Management Using Mobile Agents in a CORBA Environment
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Building and Selecting Mobile Agents for Network Management
Journal of Network and Systems Management
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This paper introduces the concepts of a servicemanagement system for mobile agent-based services. Incontrast to several other approaches in whichagent-based applications are used to handle“traditional” network or service managementaspects, this paper describes a way to manage thedistributed agent environment itself. The proposedapproach was designed and developed by using OSI SystemsManagement concepts as a starting point, which are modified andadjusted in order to fulfill the new requirementsassociated with the mobile agent paradigm. However, thispaper does not cover integration or co-existence of the introduced agent management system (AMS)and traditional OSI management systems. Instead, theentire AMS environment is based on mobile agenttechnology. At present, this approach is validated inthe context of the European research project MobileAgent Environments in Intelligent Networks(MARINE).