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Multi-management Schemes for MAF Platforms

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Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications (MATA 2002)

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Due to the crescent complexity of networks and systems, network management solutions are being pushed towards more distributed and cooperative models. Several specifications promoted by the IETF DISMAN charter already allow strong distribution of management tasks. Unfortunately, they are not adequate to achieve cooperative models. According to recent research, mobile agents provide a good platform to back cooperative models but several lacks are still identified - interoperability between different platforms and SNMP integration. Based on Mobile Agent Facility specification from the OMG, we propose a MIB to better integrate mobile agent models into SNMP frameworks and a GUI tool to monitor and control mobile agents platforms.

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  1. Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, ESTiG, 5300, Bragança, Portugal

    Rui Pedro Lopes

  2. DET, University of Aveiro, 3810, Aveiro, Portugal

    José Luis Oliveira

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  1. School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, 161, Louis Pasteur, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Ahmed Karmouch

  2. Fraunhofer Institut FOKUS, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31, 10589, Berlin, Germany

    Thomas Magedanz

  3. Departament de Tecnologia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Pg. Circumvallació 8, 08003, Barcelona, Spain

    Jaime Delgado

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Lopes, R.P., Oliveira, J.L. (2002). Multi-management Schemes for MAF Platforms. In: Karmouch, A., Magedanz, T., Delgado, J. (eds) Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications. MATA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2521. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36086-7_2

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