Low-cost itineraries for multi-hop agents designed for scalable monitoring of multiple subnets

Computer Networks

Volumn 50, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 2937-2952

  Gavalas, Damianos ^a   Politi, Christina Tanya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Heuristic; Itinerary optimization; Mobile agents; Network monitoring; Performance evaluation; SNMP

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

ITINERARY OPTIMIZATION; MOBILE AGENTS; NETWORK MONITORING; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 33748206378     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2005.10.024     Document Type: Article

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