Master Subagent Based Architecture to Monitor and Manage Nodes in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

Ad-hoc wireless networks have been receiving increasing attention in the research community as well as the industry. Ad-hoc wireless networks are distributed systems formed spontaneously without relying on existing infrastructure. It’s formed from wireless mobile nodes which can move around freely; dynamically self-organize into temporary network topologies. Currently there are certain tools available to the network administrators to discover the mobile network nodes automatically. However monitoring is more difficult in networks where the topology changes very frequently such as Mobile Ad hoc networks (MANET). In this paper, an SNMP based framework that is distributed and used to collect statistics from any interface is discussed. This paper outlines the experience of implementation of a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent based