Paper Info
Title
Deploying a Hierarchical Management Framework Using Mobile Agent Technology
Abstract
The use of Mobile Agent (MA) paradigm has been proposed by many researchers as an answer to the scalability and flexibility limitations of centralised Network Management (NM). Nevertheless, while large enterprise networks are already hierarchically structured, MA-based management has not yet moved from ‘flat’ to hierarchical structures. That results in non-scalable flat architectures, particularly when the management of remote subnetworks is considered. In this context, the deployment of a hierarchically structured MA-based management framework is a reasonable approach. The migration to hierarchical structures is achieved with an additional management entity, the Mobile Distributed Manager (MDM), which takes the full control of managing a given network segment. This architecture exploits the mobility features of MDMs to dynamically adapt to mutable networking conditions. Empirical results indicate a substantial reduction of the overall management cost compared to both centralised and MA-based flat management approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1007/3-540-46525-1_23
IS&N
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile agent technology,hierarchical management framework,network management,mobile agent
Hierarchical control system,Telecommunications network,Software deployment,Network segment,Computer science,Mobile agent,Exploit,Network management,Distributed computing,Scalability
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
1774
0302-9743
3-540-67152-8
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
15
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Damianos Gavalas197476.93
Dominic Greenwood222419.12
Mohammed Ghanbari31197169.16
Mike O'Mahony4464.97