Route Observation using Mobile Agent

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Route Observation using Mobile
Agent

• Hori Lab
• Jun Sakai

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Background And Purpose
Background

• SNMP(Simple Network Management Protocol )can
  observe only network equipment.
• Recently, The Networks size became larger and
  more complex than ever.

Hard to implement in client side
Purpose

• To find the server information and route path .
• To implement a route observation program using
  Mobile Agent and Java.

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Mobile Agent

• Mobile Agent is the program that independently
  move among hosts.
• When the Agent moves among hosts ,the state and
  source code will also be transferred to the
  designated host.

Mobile Agent
Mobile Agent
migration
State
State
Byte Code
Byte Code
Network
Computer A
Computer B
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Implementations Environment and Mobile Agent
System

• Java JDK1.3
• OS Solaris 7
• Mobile Agent Aglets

Computer A
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Route Monitering

• The manager generates an Agent.
• The agent routes among hosts.
• Traceroute program executes in each host .Each
  host then will return the result to manager.

server
traceroute
host
Aglet
manager
traceroute
host
Disk
server
traceroute
host
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Future works and Conclusion
Future works

• To validate the reliability of system.
• To implement Security

Conclusion
Mobile Agent can be implemented using Java.