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Mobile Agent Based Fault Management Paradigms–A Review

Atul Srivastava, Atul Mishra, A K Sharma

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Due to exponential growth and application of networks in current scenario network reliability has become most essential aspect of network management. Facilitating the users with services is not alone sufficient to satisfy the users but their dependency on networks must also be sustained by providing reliable network. Conventional approaches to address network management or particularly fault management are SNMP or CMIP based systems. These systems are based on request response concept and involve a huge amount of data to be transmitted over network links. These approaches suffer from scalability and flexibility. Mobile agents open a hopeful door to deal with shortcomings of conventional approaches. A lot more sensible efforts have been made towards the improvement of fault management process in context of scalability, flexibility, bandwidth utilization and response time. This paper is mainly focused on exploring the work done by researchers to address problems in conventional fault management strategies.

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Mobile Agent, SNMP, CMIP, Fault Management.

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