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Korea Information Processing Society (한국정보처리학회)
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A Performance Evaluation of Mobile Agent for Network Management

네트워크 관리를 위한 이동 에이전트의 성능평가

  • 권혁찬 (한국전자통신연구원) ;
  • 김흥환 (서원대학교 컴퓨터정보통신학부) ;
  • 유관종 (충남대학교 정보통신공학부)
  • Published : 2001.02.01
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Abstract

This paper mentions a centralized approach based on SNMP protocol and distributed approach based on mobile agent in network management s system. And it presents a few Quantitative models for systematically evaluating those two different approaches. To do this, we propose model m that is applicable under a uniform network environment, and compare network execution times of each paradigms based on parameters from s simulation. The model is then refined to take into account non-uniform networks. We show that it can reduce overall network execution times b by determining the best interaction patterns to perfo$\pi$n network management operations from this model. We believe that the model proposed h here should help us to decide appropriate paradigms and interaction patterns for developing network management applications.

본 논문에서는 네트워크 관리 시스템에서 SNMP(Simple Network Management Protocol) 프로토콜을 이용한 중앙 집중형 방식과 이동 에이젠트(mobile agent)를 이용한 분산방식 각각의 성능을 평가하기 위한 성능평가 모델을 제시한다. 먼저 균등 네트워크 상에서 적용 가능한 모델을 제시하고 실제 실험을 통하여 각 파라미터 값의 변화에 따른 네트워크 수행 시간을 비교한다. 다음으로 비균등 네트워크에 적용 가능하도록 모델을 확장하고, 제시한 모델을 응용하여 실제 가상의 시나리오 하에서 네트워크 소요시간을 줄일 수 있는 방안과 그에 대한 실험 결과를 제시한다. 본 성능평가 모델은 차후 네트워크 관리시스템을 개발할 때에, 효율적인 패러타임(paradigm)과 수행 구조를 선택하는데 도움이 될 수 있을 것이다.

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