Mobile agents in distributed network management: by helping to disperse centralized network management tasks to subnet hosts, mobile agent technology helps conserve network bandwidth and improves management efficiency by decreasing network traffic

Authors :: Du, Timon C.
Li, Eldon Y.
Chang, An-Pin
Source :: Communications of the ACM. July, 2003, Vol. 46 Issue 7, p127, 5 p.
Publication Year :: 2003

Subjects :: Market trend/market analysis
Company systems management
Network architecture
Peer to peer computing
Distributed processing (Computers)
Network management device
Network capacity management
Network management
Intelligent agent
Network architecture -- Research
Network architecture -- Forecasts and trends
Distributed processing (Computers) -- Information management
Distributed processing (Computers) -- Research
Distributed processing (Computers) -- Forecasts and trends
Network management systems -- Research
Network management systems -- Information management
Network management systems -- Design and construction
Network management systems -- Forecasts and trends

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