Reconstruction mechanism based on distributed intelligent agents for network management

In order to promote the reliability of network management, a fault tolerant reconstruction mechanism based on distributed intelligent agents is proposed. In a centralized management domain, domain manager is the most important node. So there are a number of distributed intelligent agents that own part or entire function of domain manager as management redundancies. Through the redundancies, it is assured once the domain manager is in invalidate state, the distributed intelligent agents elect the best management ability agent to replace primary manager and reconstructed management domain. This paper puts forward a two-phase fault tolerance reconstruction algorithm with the ability of fault tolerance. Besides, it also gives the formal description of the algorithm and the complex analysis, as well as illustrating the advantage of this algorithm. Moreover, this paper also explains the entity structure of distributed agents.