Implementation of Trust and Reputation Management for Free-Roaming Mobile Agent Security

Author

Geetha, G. ; Jayakumar, C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Jerusalem Eng. Coll., Chennai, India

Volume

9

Issue

2

fYear

2015

fDate

42156

Firstpage

556

Lastpage

566

Abstract

Mobile agent (MA) technology plays an important role in today´s e-world. MA is a program that consists of code and data that move from one host to another host and performs a task on behalf of the user. MA protection becomes essential when it migrates to the remote hosts in a network. Here, trust and reputation management (TRM) is implemented to provide a secure path for free-roaming MA data protection. TRM utilizes a trust-based routing table that is constructed with a trust and reputation value. Various types of attacks, particularly colluded truncation attacks, are avoided by secure routing. Cryptographic algorithms are used to ensure properties such as confidentiality, integrity, etc. Thus, the free-roaming MA retrieves information from various remote hosts in a secure and efficient manner.

Keywords

cryptography; data protection; mobile agents; trusted computing; TRM; cryptographic algorithms; e-world; free-roaming MA data protection; free-roaming mobile agent security; information retrieval; remote hosts; secure path; secure routing; truncation attacks; trust and reputation management; trust-based routing table; Cryptography; Routing; Routing protocols; TV; Transmission line measurements; Code migration; colluded truncation attack; mobile agent (MA) security; protection; routing table; trust and reputation management (TRM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Systems Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1932-8184

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSYST.2013.2292192

Filename

6731555