• DocumentCode
    2381208
  • Title

    Generate Sub-Agent Mechanism to protect mobile agent privacy

  • Author

    Ahmed, T.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Math. Sci., Univ. of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    18-20 March 2012
  • Firstpage
    86
  • Lastpage
    91
  • Abstract
    In recent years, the mobile agent system has taken a wide area of researchers´ attention. They conducted intensive researches in the security areas to reach an ideal mobile agent model. The security area still needs more efforts to protect the mobile agent system. The protection of the mobile agent is one of these issues. this paper a new mechanism called Generated Sub-Agent Mechanism (GSAM) to protect mobile agent against malicious Hosts has been proposed. The main idea behind GSAM is to generate a sub-mobile agent from the mobile agent in case the mobile agent will visit an untrusted host. The sub-mobile agent visits the untrusted host instead of the mobile agent. After the sub-mobile agent completes its work, it returns to the original mobile agent location and the mobile agent continues its journey. By this way, the untrusted host could not reach the content of the mobile agent. It couldn´t attack the mobile agent behavior. The paper describes all GSMA components. GSMA cost analysis has been done. The analysis result mentions that the increasing of the untrusted host number reduces the time cost and GSMA has not.
  • Keywords
    data privacy; mobile agents; GSAM; generated sub agent mechanism; malicious hosts; mobile agent privacy protection; subagent mechanism; Cryptography; Equations; Generators; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Privacy; Mobile Agent; Mobility; Privacy; Security;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computers & Informatics (ISCI), 2012 IEEE Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Penang
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1685-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISCI.2012.6222672
  • Filename
    6222672