Building and Selecting Mobile Agents for Network Management

  • Authors:

  • Ichiro Satoh

  • Affiliations:

  • National Institute of Informatics, Chiyoda-ku, Japan 101-8430

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Network and Systems Management
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper presents a framework for reusable mobile agents for network management in the sense that they are independent of either particular networks or applications. The framework enables a mobile agent to be composed from two layered components, which are mobile agents. The former is a carrier of the latter over particular networks independent of any management tasks and the latter defines management tasks performed at each host independently of any networks. The framework also offers a mechanism for matchmaking the two components. Since the mechanism is formulated on a process algebra approach, it can accurately select the appropriate itinerary component to perform management tasks at hosts that the tasks want to visit over networks. The framework provides a methodology for easily developing and operating mobile agents for traveling among multiple sub-networks to perform their management tasks at all of the nodes that they visit. This paper also describes the framework, its prototype implementation, and a practical application.