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.