Network management agent allocation scheme in mesh networks

• Published in: IEEE communications letters Vol. 7; no. 12; pp. 601 - 603
• Main Author: OH, Minseok
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY IEEE 01.12.2003; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Aging; Alarm systems; Allocations; Applied sciences; Communication networks; Computer networks; Electric shock; Electrical fault detection; Exact sciences and technology; Intelligent networks; Joining processes; Management; Mesh networks; Networks; Operation, maintenance, reliability; Operation, maintenance, reliability of teleprocessing networks; Organization and planning of networks (techniques and equipments); Probabilistic methods; Probability theory; Robustness; Systems, networks and services of telecommunications; Telecommunication network reliability; Telecommunications; Telecommunications and information theory; Teleprocessing networks. Isdn; Thresholds; Multiagent system; Meshed network; mesh network; Resource allocation; Telecommunication network; fault detection; Failure detection; Network management; Reliability; Agent allocation; Optimization
• ISSN: 1089-7798; 1558-2558
• DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2003.821321

In this letter, we propose a scheme for constructing a reliable alarm detection structure in the communication networks. We investigate how to allocate a minimal set of management agents and still cover all alarms in mesh networks under the assumption that alarms are delivered along provisioned paths. We also consider the probabilistic nature of alarm loss and propose an efficient scheme for allocating a minimal set of agents while keeping the overall alarm loss probability below a threshold.