Management Issues of a Mobile-Agent-Based Service Environment [Vol. 7, No. 3, 1999]

Management Issues of a Mobile-Agent-Based Service Environment

Sang Choy
IKV++ GmbH
Kurfuerstendamm 173-174, D - 10707 Berlin, Germany
Email: choy_AT_ikv.de

Markus Breugst
IKV++GmbH
Kurfvrstendamm 173 - 174, D - 10707 Berlin, Germany
Email: breugst_AT_ikv.de

Abstract
This paper introduces the concepts of a service management system for mobile agent-based services. In contrast to several other approaches in which agent-based applications are used to handle "traditional" network or service management aspects, this paper describes a way to manage the distributed agent environment itself. The proposed approach was designed and developed by using OSI Systems Management concepts as a starting point, which are modified and adjusted in order to fulfil the new requirements associated with the mobile agent paradigm. However, this paper does not cover an integration or co-existence of the introduced agent management system (AMS) and traditional OSI management systems. Instead, the entire AMS environment is based on mobile agent technology. At present, this approach is validated in the context of the European research project Mobile Agent Environments in Intelligent Networks (MARINE).

Keywords: Mobile Agents, Service Life Cycle Management, Agent Management, OSI Systems Management, Management Context.

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