A trustworthy mobile agent infrastructure for network management

Koliousis, A. and Sventek, J.S. (2007) A trustworthy mobile agent infrastructure for network management. In: The Tenth IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management 2007 (IM'07), Munich, Germany, 21 May 2007, pp. 383-390. ISBN 1424407990 (doi: 10.1109/INM.2007.374803)

Abstract

Despite several advantages inherent in mobile-agent-based approaches to network management as compared to traditional SNMP-based approaches, industry is reluctant to adopt the mobile agent paradigm as a replacement for the existing manager-agent model; the management community requires an evolutionary, rather than a revolutionary, use of mobile agents. Furthermore, security for distributed management is a major concern; agent-based management systems inherit the security risks of mobile agents. We have developed a Java-based mobile agent infrastructure for network management that enables the safe integration of mobile agents with the SNMP protocol. The security of the system has been evaluated under agent to agent-platform and agent to agent attacks and has proved trustworthy in the performance of network management tasks.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Sventek, Professor Joseph and Koliousis, Mr Alexandros
• Authors: Koliousis, A., and Sventek, J.S.
• Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• Publisher: IEEE
• ISBN: 1424407990
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2007 IEEE
• First Published: First published in The Tenth IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management 2007 (IM'07)
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