Hierarchical network management: a scalable and dynamic mobile agent-based approach

摘要

Several distributed management architectures, incorporating mobile agent (MA) technology, have been recently proposed to answer the scalability limitations of centralised models and the flexibility problems of static hierarchical frameworks. Yet, although agent-based management frameworks have recently started evolving from the early 'flat' models to hierarchical structures, they cannot efficiently cope with the dynamically changing traffic and topological characteristics of modern networks.