Research Of Mobile Agent Based Network Topology Discovery Technology

Discovering and keeping track of the topology of a network is essential for effective network management. With the proliferation of new networking technologies, and the demand for new services, it will become increasingly difficult to discover large-scale network's topology with the traditional C/S management system. Due to the remarkable characters of today's network, this paper researches the traditional network management technology, topology discovery technology, SNMP and introduces an intelligent mobile agent based distributed network topology discovery frame, realizes the algorithm and analyses the performance of it. The new algorithm provides good performance by distributing the topology discovery tasks according to the agent's intelligence, mobility and autonomy.