8 research outputs found
Design of a Mobile Agent for Monitoring Activities of Users
Monitoring is an aspect of network management aimed at ensuring optimal performance of the network and that the users play by the rules. This paper presents the design of a mobile agent for monitoring the activities of users in a network. Users’ activities can be localized on their personal workstation or extended to the enterprise network and the Internet, in which case it can impact on the subscribed bandwidth, which is a shared resource of the corporate entity that they represent. All users hope to work in an environment of unlimited resources, including disk space, RAM and bandwidth. However, though the cost of these computing resources have reduced significantly owning to advances in microelectronic technology, they are still far from being free and inexhaustible. In this research, we design a mobile agent tool that can monitor users’ activities in a network environment with a view to enhancing the effective utilisation of system resources, and in particular, the physical memory. The aim is to enable optimal resource utilisation in the network environment. In this paper, we define a mathematical formulation of user activities, load overhead of mobile agents and itinerary partition to avoid the over-bloating problem. The architecture of the mobile agent is explained. Keywords: Mobile Agent; System resources; Computer network; Code Mobility; Monitorin
Design of a Mobile Agent for Monitoring Activities of Users
Monitoring is an aspect of network management aimed at ensuring optimal performance of the network and that the users play by the rules. This paper presents the design of a mobile agent for monitoring the activities of users in a network. Users’ activities can be localized on their personal workstation or extended to the enterprise network and the Internet, in which case it can impact on the subscribed bandwidth, which is a shared resource of the corporate entity that they represent. All users hope to work in an environment of unlimited resources, including disk space, RAM and bandwidth. However, though the cost of these computing resources have reduced significantly owning to advances in microelectronic technology, they are still far from being free and inexhaustible. In this research, we design a mobile agent tool that can monitor users’ activities in a network environment with a view to enhancing the effective utilisation of system resources, and in particular, the physical memory. The aim is to enable optimal resource utilisation in the network environment. In this paper, we define a mathematical formulation of user activities, load overhead of mobile agents and itinerary partition to avoid the over-bloating problem. The architecture of the mobile agent is explained. Keywords: Mobile Agent, System resources, Computer network, Code Mobility, Monitorin
Integrating Peer-to-Peer Networking and Computing in the AgentScape Framework
The combination of peer-to-peer networking and agentbased computing seems to be a perfect match. Agents are cooperative and communication oriented, while peerto -peer networks typically support distributed systems in which all nodes have equal roles and responsibilities. AgentScape is a framework designed to support large-scale multi-agent systems. Pole extends this framework with peerto -peer computing. This combination facilitates the development and deployment of new agent-based peer-to-peer applications and services
Embedded middleware for smart camera networks and sensor fusion
Abstract Smart cameras are an interesting research field that has evolved over the last decade. In this chapter we focus on the integration of multiple, potentially heterogeneous, smart cameras into a distributed system for computer vision and sensor fusion. An important aspect for every distributed system is the system-level software, also called middleware. Hence, we discuss the requirements on middleware for distributed smart cameras and the services such a middleware has to provide. In our opinion a middleware following the agent-oriented paradigm allows to build flexible and self-organizing applications that encourage a modular design
Biometrics
Biometrics-Unique and Diverse Applications in Nature, Science, and Technology provides a unique sampling of the diverse ways in which biometrics is integrated into our lives and our technology. From time immemorial, we as humans have been intrigued by, perplexed by, and entertained by observing and analyzing ourselves and the natural world around us. Science and technology have evolved to a point where we can empirically record a measure of a biological or behavioral feature and use it for recognizing patterns, trends, and or discrete phenomena, such as individuals' and this is what biometrics is all about. Understanding some of the ways in which we use biometrics and for what specific purposes is what this book is all about
A mobile agent-based active network architecture for intelligent network control
The innovation and evolution of network technologies and services to enhance network
functionality have traditionally encountered the problems of backward-compatibility
and standardization. To resolve the related issues, active networks have been
introduced to enable specific customization of network functionality without the lengthy
standard-mediated committee processes. In this paper, we exploit the capability of
mobile agent technology to construct an active network architecture. We argue that the
mobile agent can be a building block for specific network customizations, and introduction
of new network functionality. Both integrated and discrete operational models
of network customizations can be supported in our prototype implementation. For the
service development and deployment, an abstract service structure and a service loading
mechanism are presented. Furthermore, we provide an agent management/control
mechanism and devise a service management/control mechanism, which is either not
available or incomplete in the other related work. The proposed architecture allows new
service introduction, and as a result, achieves improved network functionality
Network management using active networks
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