Mobile Agents (MAs) represent a distributed computing technology that promises to address the scalability problems of centralized network management. A critical issue that will affect the wider adoption of MA paradigm in management applications is the development of MA Platforms (MAPs) expressly oriented to distributed management. However, most of available platforms impose considerable burden on network and system resources and also lack of essential functionality, such as security mechanisms, fault tolerance, strategies for building network-aware MA itineraries and support for user-friendly customization of MA-based management tasks. In this paper, we discuss the design considerations and implementation details of a complete MAP research prototype that sufficiently addresses all the aforementioned issues. Our MAP has been implemented in Java and tailored for network and systems management applications.
1st Mosharaka International Conference on Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications (MIC-MCWC 2006)
Congress
2006 Global Congress on Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications (GC-MCWC 2006), 17-20 September 2006, Amman, Jordan
Pages
55-60
Topics
Adaptive Network Technologies Mobile Agents
ISSN
2227-331X
DOI
BibTeX
@inproceedings{80MCWC2006,
title={A lightweight and flexible mobile agent platform tailored to management applications},
author={Damianos Gavalas},
booktitle={2006 Global Congress on Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications (GC-MCWC 2006)},
year={2006},
pages={55-60},
doi={}},
organization={Mosharaka for Research and Studies}
}
