JAMES: A Platform of Mobile Agents for the Management of Telecommunication Networks

Abstract

Abstract. This paper presents an overview of JAMES, a J a va-based platform of mobile agents that is mainly oriented for the management o f d a t a and telecommunication networks. This platform has been developed on behalf of a Eureka Project !1921 and the project partners are Siemens SA, University of Coimbra and Siemens AG. We describe the main architecture of the platform giving more emphasis to the most important features. To s h o w the e ectiveness of some of the techniques that have been implemented we will present some performance results that compare the JAMES platform with the Aglets Workbench. The main target of our platform is network management and telecommunication applications. In this line, we h a ve done a Java-based implementation of SNMP that has been integrated within the platform. The industrial partners of our project i.e. Siemens S.A. have d e v eloped a prototype application for TMN performance management. Although it is still a prototype it is being used to validate the technological advantages of using mobile agents in the management of telecommunication networks.

Secure Network Management Within an Open-Source Mobile Agent Framework

“…JAMES [24] is a Java-based platform of mobile agents for the management of telecommunication networks. The network management application runs at the JAMES manager, every network element runs a JVM and an MA server (called "Agency"), and development of code is separated from the running environment via a dedicated code server.…”

“…The network management application runs at the JAMES manager, every network element runs a JVM and an MA server (called "Agency"), and development of code is separated from the running environment via a dedicated code server. However, despite many innovative features, the JAMES platform does not so far [24] consider security aspects of the system and does not provide authentication or encryption schemes. In [25] integration of SNMP and mobile agents is examined and SNMP-enabled mobile agents are introduced.…”

Comparing the performance of mobile agent systems: a study of benchmarking

“…More details about our platform can be obtained in Ref. [2] or in the following web site: http:// james.dei.uc.pt/james…”

“…We have also been developing a Java-based platform, called James, in a cooperating project between the University of Coimbra and Siemens (Eureka Project S!1921) [2]. This platform is mainly oriented for telecommunications and network management.…”

A Network Management Framework Using Mobile Agents

“…However, no performance analysis is done. The objective of the JAMES project [5] is to create an efficient mobile agent platform mainly used for network management. It provides many optimizations in comparison to commercial mobile agent platforms that are mandatory to achieve efficiency and high performance in the domain of network management.…”