Network and distributed systems management
Network and distributed systems management
Distributed management by delegation
Distributed management by delegation
Optimal Polling in Communication Networks
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Decentralised approaches for network management
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A quantitative comparison of graph-based models for Internet topology
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Agent design patterns: elements of agent application design
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
Evaluating the tradeoffs of mobile code design paradigms in network management applications
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering
Readings in Distributed Computing Systems
Readings in Distributed Computing Systems
Exploiting Code Mobility in Decentralized and Flexible Network Management
MA '97 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobile Agents
Delegated agents for network management
IEEE Communications Magazine
Dynamic Agent Domains in Mobile Agent Based Network Management
ICN '01 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Networking-Part 2
On delays in management frameworks: metrics, models and analysis
DSOM'06 Proceedings of the 17th IFIP/IEEE international conference on Distributed Systems: operations and management
Towards ambient networks management
MATA'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications
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The problem of improving the performance and scalability of current monitoring systems, which generally follow a centralised and static management model is considered herein. Several alternative solutions based on Mobile Agents (MAs), specifically tailored to network monitoring are described. In particular, the key problem of computing efficiently the initial number and location of MAs is addressed, and techniques for rapid MA deployment are described. Mathematical models for the proposed MA solutions and for the common technique of centralised polling are built and a comparative analysis of their performance is carried out. Performance is expressed in terms of monitoring trafic and delay. Results on traffic show that MAs typically offer improved performance, although they do not always scale better than polling. However, results on delay demonstrate that MA solutions improve both scalability and performance under most circumstances.