IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems
Communications of the ACM
Exploiting Code Mobility in Decentralized and Flexible Network Management
MA '97 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobile Agents
A Hybrid Centralized - Distributed Network Management Architecture
ISCC '99 Proceedings of the The Fourth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
On distributed system management
CASCON '93 Proceedings of the 1993 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research: distributed computing - Volume 2
Evaluating the Network Performance Management Based on Mobile Agents
MATA '00 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications
Mobile Agent Distribution in a Game-Theoretic Approach
MATA '02 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications
Dynamic Agent Domains in Mobile Agent Based Network Management
ICN '01 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Networking-Part 2
Advanced network monitoring applications based on mobile/intelligent agent technology
Computer Communications
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The intrinsic limitations of traditional centralised Network Management (NM), such as information bottlenecks and lack of flexibility, have encouraged a trend towards distributed management intelligence. Although several distributed NM architectures, exploiting the advantages of Mobile Agents (MA) have been recently proposed, when considering Network Performance Management (NPM) they fail to address scalability problems. In this paper, we describe a secure and fault-tolerant management framework based on MAs, which addresses these limitations by introducing two efficient, lightweight polling modes. Both real-time and off-line NM data acquisition is considered. An in-depth performance analysis of the introduced polling modes, in a data-intensive NPM application is also undertaken. The two modes are shown to outperform SNMP-based polling both in terms of response time and bandwidth consumption.