ZHANG Pu-han, SUN Yu-fang. Evaluating Response Time of a Network Management System Based on Mobile Agents[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2002, 30(10): 1421-1424.
ZHANG Pu-han, SUN Yu-fang. Evaluating Response Time of a Network Management System Based on Mobile Agents[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2002, 30(10): 1421-1424.DOI:
In order to reduce the response time for mobile agent-based network management system
we present a quantitative model to analyze the major factors that effect the response time.Various experiments are carried out in order to evaluate the effect on management response time:number of managed network elements
data rate between network elements and manager
data rate between network elements and task to be performed.Results show that the mobile agent is more influenced by the task to be performed and is less sensitive to the bandwidth of the bottleneck link that connects the management station to the remote LAN. Moreover
a significant improvement of the response time for mobile agent is obtained when the mobile agent sends data to the management station after visiting a fixed number of nodes.