Applying Web Services with Mobile Agents for Computer Network Management

摘要

The exponential rise in complexity of the underlying network elements of a computer network makes its Management an intricate, multifaceted and complex problem to solve. With every passing decade, new technologies are developed to ease this problem of Network Management. The last decade of the premillennium era saw the peak of CORBA and Mobile Agent Based implementations, while the first decade of post millennium saw the emergence of Web Services. All of these technologies evolved as independent, self-contained implementation streams. There is a genuine dearth in finding authentic research outcomes where quantifiable, measureable benefits of convergence of these technologies applied to Network Management are put forth. This paper aims to fill this research gap. Here we put forth the experimental results obtained of a framework we developed in-house for Network Management that combined two seemingly divergent distributed computing technologies, namely, Web Services and Mobile Agents.