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Mobile agents in distributed network management

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By helping to disperse centralized network management tasks to subnet hosts, mobile agent technology helps conserve network bandwidth and improves management efficiency by decreasing network traffic.

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 46, Issue 7
            A game experience in every application
            July 2003
            129 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/792704
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