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This paper aims to investigate mobile agent scalability in netw ork managemeit, in order to find when mobile agents improve the management efficiency. We compare the performance of two different solutions to gathering MIB-II variables on managed elements: a mobile agent-based one and SNMP. By analyzing response time results, we can say that the mobile agent performs better than the SNMP when the number of managed network elements ranges between two limits: an inferior bound, associated with the number of messages that pass through a large scale network, and a superior bound, related to incremental size of mobile agent.
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Rubinstein, M.G., Duarte, O.C.M.B., Pujolle, G. (2000). Evaluating the Network Performance Management Based on Mobile Agents. In: Horlait, E. (eds) Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications. MATA 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1931. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45391-1_7
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