Providing customisable network management services tlirough mobile agents

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1774, Issue , 2000, Pages 209-226

  Griffin, David ^a   Pavlou, George ^b   Georgatsos, Panos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c A T T S Dept   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NETWORK MANAGEMENT; STANDARDIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

ARCHITECTURAL FRAMEWORKS; CONNECTIVITY MANAGEMENT; ELECTRONIC CUSTOMERS; MOBILE AGENT TECHNOLOGY; NETWORK MANAGEMENT SERVICE; NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 79960332407     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-46525-1_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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