Comparing the Performance of SNMP and Web Services-Based Management

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 72-82

  Pras, Aiko ^a   Drevers, Thomas ^a   de Meent, Remco van ^a   Quartel, Dick ^a  

^a University of Twenties   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

bandwidth usage; BER; compression if Table; CPU time; memory consumption; performance; round trip delay; SNMP; Web services; XML

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008055733     PISSN: 19324537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2004.4798292     Document Type: Article

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