Using mobile agent strategies for reducing the response time in network management

This paper aims to investigate mobile agent tradeoffs in network management by performing management task simulations. The analysis focuses on the performance of two unload strategies in order to reduce the response time for the mobile agent: in the first approach, the mobile agent returns to the management station; in the second one, the mobile agent just sends data to the management station, both after visiting a fixed number of nodes. Results show that the response time decreases by 62, and 64%, for the first and second strategies, when compared with gathering all data without returning or sending these data to the management station before finishing the task.