Mobile Agent-based Performance Management for the Virtual Home Environment
C. Bohoris
Center for Communication Systems Research, School of Electronic Engineering and Information Technology, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK
Email: c.bohoris_AT_eim.surrey.ac.uk
G. Pavlou
Center for Communication Systems Research, School of Electronic Engineering and Information Technology, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK
Email: g.pavlou_AT_eim.surrey.ac.uk
A. Liotta
Center for Communication Systems Research, School of Electronic Engineering and Information Technology, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK
Email: a.liotta_AT_eim.surrey.ac.uk
Abstract
The Virtual Home Environment (VHE) encompasses the deployment and management
of adaptable services that retain any personalized service aspects, irrespective of
terminal, network and geographic location. We assert that the dynamic nature of the VHE
requires management capabilities that can be suitably provided through the use of
mobile agent technology. In this direction, we examine four different engineering
solutions for the realization of a VHE performance management component that allows
service adaptation in relation to the available network Quality of Service (QoS).
The mobile agent approach is compared with competing technologies in order to i
dentify the benefits of this novel application of mobile agents, discuss its
drawbacks and finally focus on the lessons learned from our prototype system.
Although mobile agents are typically associated with increased performance costs,
it is through agent migration that we were able to address the VHE requirements of
universality, dynamic programmability and network technology independence.
Keywords: Mobile Agents, Distributed Objects, Programmability, Performance Management, Virtual Home Environment
JNSM: Vol. 11, No. 2, 2003
Mobile Agent-based Performance Management for the Virtual Home Environment [Vol. 11, No. 2, 2003]
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