Distributed Network Monitoring Using Mobile Agents Paradigm

Traditionally network monitoring and management has been done using predominantly centralized techniques. Mobile agents have been proposed as an alternative to this centralized approach. In this paper we propose a novel approach for distributed and dynamic network monitoring, using mobile agents. We use the IBM Aglets system and show how a Java-based distributed network monitoring application can use this paradigm for efficient data collection and analysis and adapt to variations in network characteristics.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: PDPTA
• Authors: Farhad Kamangar, David Levine, Gergely V. Záruba, Navakiran Chitturi
• Keywords: Java-based Distributed Network, Mobile Agents, Network Monitoring, PDPTA 2003, PDPTA 2007