A Novel Resource Efficient Dmms Approach for Network Monitoring and Controlling Functions
Golam R. Khan, Sharmistha Khan, Dhadesugoor R. Vaman, Suxia Cui · International Journal of Wireless & Mobile Networks · 2015
In this paper, we propose a novel Distributed MANET Management System (DMMS) approach to use cross layer models to demonstrate a simplified way of efficiently managing the overall performance of individual network resources (nodes) and the network itself which is critical for not only monitoring the traffic, but also dynamically controlling the end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) for different applications.In the proposed DMMS architecture, each network resource maintains a set of Management Information Base (MIB) elements and stores resource activities in their abstraction in terms of counters, timer, flag and threshold values.The abstract data is exchanged between different management agents residing in different resources on a need-to-know basis and each agent logically executes management functions locally to develop understanding of the behavior of all network resources to ensure that user protocols can function smoothly.However, in traditional network management systems, they collect statistical data such as resource usage and performance by spoofing of resources.The amount of data that is exchanged with other resources through management protocols that can be extremely high and the bandwidth for overhead management functions increases significantly.Also, the data storage requirements in each network resource for management functions increases and become inefficient as it increases the power usage for processing.Our proposed scheme targets at solving the problems.