Overview

Presenting mobile software agents for Internet service monitoring, this research monograph discusses newly standardized Internet technologies that allow service providers to offer secured Internet services with quality guarantees. Yet, today the customers of such services have no independent tool to verify (monitor) the service quality. This book shows why mobile software agents are best fit to fill the gap.

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Author:   Manuel Günter
Publisher:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Imprint:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Edition:   2002 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9783764369170

ISBN 10:   3764369175
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   01 July 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Overall Scenario.- 1.2 Advanced IP Network Services.- 1.3 Agent Technology.- 1.4 Network and Service Management.- 1.5 The Problem and the Proposed Approach.- 1.6 Outline of the Book.- 2 A Service Monitoring Architecture.- 2.1 Introduction and Motivation.- 2.2 Mobility and Service Monitoring.- 2.3 The Basic Infrastructure.- 2.4 Mobility Models and Agent Forwarding.- 2.5 Internet Deployment.- 3 Implementation of CSM.- 3.1 The CSM Protocol.- 3.2 The T-Component and the Raw Packet Protocol.- 3.3 The CSM Node.- 3.4 Agent Interface.- 3.5 Security and Resource Control.- 3.6 The Home Application.- 3.7 CSM Internetworking Support.- 3.8 Organization of the Source Code.- 4 Applications of Service Monitoring Agents.- 4.1 Monitoring a Virtual Private Network Service.- 4.2 Service Level Agreement Monitoring.- 4.3 Agents for Measuring QoS Parameters.- 4.4 Agent Security.- 4.5 Extended Application Scenarios.- 5 Performance Evaluation.- 5.1 Performance of the Node Environment.- 5.2 Agent Performance.- 5.4 The T-Component.- 5.5 Discussion and Improvements.- 6 Comparison with Related Work.- 6.1 The Internet2 Initiative and the QBone.- 6.2 Network Measurements and Monitoring.- 6.3 Mobile Agents for Management and Monitoring.- 6.4 Open Issues.- 7 Summary and Conclusion.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.- List of Abbreviations.

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