POOL-BASED HETEROGENEOUS MOBILE AGENTSFOR NETWORK MANAGEMENT

摘要

The use of mobile agents to manage networks provides an efficient paradigm shift from traditional client/serverrnarchitecture. Mobile agents provide an intelligent automatic management of wide network nodes consumingrnless computer and network resources. In this paper, we propose a prototype system with a heterogeneousrnmobile agent pool. We introduce a heterogeneous agent pool – where different type of agents co-exists. Thernpool is configurable to start a predefined number of mobile agents of each type. The set of stubs deployed withrnthe agent determines the task performed by them. Agent pooling is an efficient way to manage resources andrncontrol the number of mobile agents in the network. It also makes the system scalable. In this paper, we proposernan implementation of Network Node Fail Over scenario with our prototype system.