Improving network management with mobile agents in peer-to-peer networks

Regarding the size and the complexity growth of today's networks, several network management models have been studied and proposed. Furthermore, new requirements emerge with the interaction among entities that compose the management system, such as interoperability, collaboration among managers geographically separated, resources sharing, load balancing and inter-domain manager. It occurs that many of these models don't worry about the network logical configuration. In this paper, we present an improvement in the network management by combining P2P-Based Management System and Mobile Agents. The idea is to provide a mobile agent system extension for its integration with an architecture of network management based on Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. The mobile agent system makes it possible to have a more robust and self-organized network, together with the distributed system benefits.