Combating the bloated state problem in mobile agents based network monitoring applications

Computer Networks

Volumn 52, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 3218-3228

  Verma, Vijay K ^a   Joshi, Ramesh C ^a   Xie, Bin ^b   Agrawal, Dharma P ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^b University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

Bloated state; Cloning; Itinerary partitioning; Mobile agent; Network management; Simple network management protocol (SNMP)

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; AGENTS; CLONING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MOBILE AGENTS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ANALYTICAL MODELS; BLOATED STATE; CLIENT/SERVER; DECENTRALIZED NETWORK MANAGEMENTS; EFFICIENT; ITINERARY PARTITIONING; MIGRATING; NETWORK MONITORING; NETWORK RESPONSES; NETWORK STATES; NEW STRATEGIES; PRACTICAL; SIMPLE NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL (SNMP); SIMPLE NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 54049133988     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2008.08.017     Document Type: Article

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