Pool-Based Heterogeneous Mobile Agents for Network Management

The use of mobile agents to manage networks provides an efficient paradigm shift from traditional client/server architecture. Mobile agents provide an intelligent automatic management of wide network nodes consuming less computer and network resources. In this paper, we propose a prototype system with a heterogeneous mobile agent pool. We introduce a heterogeneous agent pool – where different type of agents co-exists. The pool is configurable to start a predefined number of mobile agents of each type. The set of stubs deployed with the agent determines the task performed by them. Agent pooling is an efficient way to manage resources and control the number of mobile agents in the network. It also makes the system scalable. In this paper, we propose an implementation of Network Node Fail Over scenario with our prototype system.