Customer-based IP Service Monitoring with Mobile Software Agents

1 Introduction. - 1. 1 Overall Scenario. - 1. 2 Advanced IP Network Services. - 1. 3 Agent Technology. - 1. 4 Network and Service Management. - 1. 5 The Problem and the Proposed Approach. - 1. 6 Outline of the Book. - 2 A Service Monitoring Architecture. - 2. 1 Introduction and Motivation. - 2. 2 Mobility and Service Monitoring. - 2. 3 The Basic Infrastructure. - 2. 4 Mobility Models and Agent Forwarding. - 2. 5 Internet Deployment. - 3 Implementation of CSM. - 3. 1 The CSM Protocol. - 3. 2 The T-Component and the Raw Packet Protocol. - 3. 3 The CSM Node. - 3. 4 Agent Interface. - 3. 5 Security and Resource Control. - 3. 6 The Home Application. - 3. 7 CSM Internetworking Support. - 3. 8 Organization of the Source Code. - 4 Applications of Service Monitoring Agents. - 4. 1 Monitoring a Virtual Private Network Service. - 4. 2 Service Level Agreement Monitoring. - 4. 3 Agents for Measuring QoS Parameters. - 4. 4 Agent Security. - 4. 5 Extended Application Scenarios. - 5 Performance Evaluation. - 5. 1 Performance of the Node Environment. - 5. 2 Agent Performance. - 5. 4 The T-Component. - 5. 5 Discussion and Improvements. - 6 Comparison with Related Work. - 6. 1 The Internet2 Initiative and the QBone. - 6. 2 Network Measurements and Monitoring. - 6. 3 Mobile Agents for Management and Monitoring. - 6. 4 Open Issues. - 7 Summary and Conclusion. - List of Figures. - List of Tables. - List of Abbreviations.