Abstract
The growth in the development of distributed manufacturing systems necessitates increases in efficient technologies in order to facilitate management of the networked resources. Systems such as manufacturing automation protocol (MAP) already exist which were specifically designed for managing networked manufacturing devices. However, MAP has been criticised for being over-complex and expensive for small–medium sized enterprises. The simple network management protocol (SNMP) was designed for managing TCP/IP networks, and we argue that it can also be used for managing networked manufacturing devices. However, SNMP, like MAP, is based upon a client/server architecture, and both have scalability issues. We also investigate the use of mobile agent (MA) technology as a means of managing a domain of manufacturing devices. An integrated network management framework based on MA technology is developed to direct the research into the investigation of aligning network management paradigm to the strategic management decision.
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Abbreviations
- CIM:
-
Computer integrated manufacturing
- CoD:
-
Code on demand
- DDR:
-
Distributed database repository
- HMS:
-
Holonic manufacturing system
- ISO:
-
International standards organisation
- IT:
-
Information technology
- KICAD:
-
Knowledge infrastructure of collaborative and agent-based design
- LAN:
-
Local area network
- MA:
-
Mobile agent
- MaP:
-
Mobile agents platform
- MAP:
-
Manufacturing automation protocol
- MbD:
-
Management by delegation
- MEI:
-
Manufacturing enterprise information layer
- MIB:
-
Management information base
- MMS:
-
Manufacturing message specification
- OSI:
-
Open systems interconnection
- REV:
-
Remote evaluation
- RMON:
-
Remote network monitoring
- SNMP:
-
Simple network management protocol
- TCP/IP:
-
Transmission control protocol/internet protocol
- TOP:
-
Technical office protocol
- VPDAP:
-
Virtual physical domain agent platform
- WAN:
-
Wide area network
- D MA :
-
Total MA delay
- D SNMP :
-
Total SNMP delay
- L clus :
-
LAN MA delay under clustering
- L MA :
-
MA delay in a LAN environment
- \(ma_{\Delta }\) :
-
MA size increase
- ma INIT :
-
Initial MA size
- \({\overrightarrow{O}} _{{MA}}\) :
-
MA itinerary
- φ LAN :
-
LAN propagation delay
- φ WAN :
-
WAN propagation delay
- s LAN :
-
LAN speed
- s WAN :
-
WAN speed
- ξ clus :
-
End-to-end MA delay under clustering
- ξ MA :
-
End-to-end MA delay (over WAN)
- ξ SNMP :
-
End-to-end SNMP delay (over WAN)
- ξ VPDAP :
-
End-to-end MA delay using VPDAP
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Huang, CY., Cheng, K. & Holt, A. An integrated manufacturing network management framework by using mobile agent. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 32, 822–833 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-005-0378-1
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