Presenting mobile software agents for Internet service monitoring, this research monograph discusses newly standardized Internet technologies that allow service providers to offer secured Internet services with quality guarantees. Yet, today the customers of such services have no independent tool to verify (monitor) the service quality. This book shows why mobile software agents are best fit to fill the gap.

Key features:

- An introduction to standard Internet service enabling and managing technology such as IPSec, DiffServ and SNMP

- A generic service...