Mobile agent solutions for accounting management in mobile computing
Tóm tắt
The convergence of mobile telecommunications and the Internet global system forces us to reconsider traditional client/server solutions for network and systems management. The paper claims that accounting in the mobility-enabled Internet requires support infrastructures hosted in the fixed network. These infrastructures should monitor, control and register resource consumption locally within the domains where users/terminals dynamically move to, without requiring continuous connectivity with remote and centralized accounting home managers. In addition, the paper shows that the mobile agent (MA) technology is suitable to overcome the limits of traditional accounting solutions in several mobility-enabled usage scenarios. MA can maximize locality in accessing monitoring data, can enable accounting even in case of temporary disconnection, can install new monitoring/control behavior dynamically, and can support session-dependent solutions. The paper finally presents the design and implementation of the MA-based Middleware for Mobility Accounting Management (MAM/sup 2/), together with some use cases showing the advantages of the MA adoption.
Từ khóa
#Mobile agents #Mobile computing #IP networks #Remote monitoring #Telecommunication computing #Network servers #Web server #Computer network management #Telecommunication network management #Centralized controlTài liệu tham khảo
10.1109/SAINT.2002.994460
kovacs, 1998, Integrating mobile agents into the mobile middleware, Proc Mobile Agents Int Workshop (MA'98), 10.1007/BFb0057653
10.1016/S1389-1286(99)00079-1
rigney, 1997, Radius accounting, IETF RFC 2139
calhoun, 0, Diameter Framework Document
0, Tivoli
0, AdventNet SNMP API
10.17487/rfc2975
1990, Management Information Protocol Specification - Part 2 Common Management Information Protocol ISO IS9596
dulay, 2001, Flexible security policies for mobile agent systems, Microprocessors and Microsystems Elsevier, 25
lange, 1998, Programming and Deploying Mobile Agents with Java Aglets
0
10.1016/S0141-9331(01)00100-4
10.1109/ICSE.1998.671111
10.1109/32.685258
10.1109/NOMS.2000.830435
10.1109/32.950318
dickson, 1992, Open Systems Interconnection
case, 1990, Simple network management protocol (rfc 1157), DDN Network Information Center SRI International
fang, 1996, Building an accounting infrastructure for the internet, IEEE Globecom Internet Workshop
10.1109/2.910896
10.1109/NOMS.2000.830417
10.1109/MCOM.2000.825649
hiroshi, 2000, 2d int. Working conf. active networks (iwan'oo), Lecture Notes on Computer Science
10.1109/ICDCS.1995.500036
10.1109/DOA.2001.954072
10.1109/49.842984