Task decomposition and scheduling in large-scale network management
Wei Li · Journal of Communications · 2006
With large-scale network management becoming more complicated, neither centralized network management nor generic agent-based network management could satisfy the increasing demands. A three-tier network management framework based on multi-agent was provided, which gave multi-agent the collaboration environment. In this framework, a task decomposition algorithm based on task dependence relationship was proposed, according which scheduling method was produced for multi-agent considering the characteristic of network management function. The theoretic analysis and experimental results reveal that using task decomposition method can decrease tasks execution time and save network bandwidth in large-scale network management.