Title :
Generating mobile agent securely by using MASL
Author :
Ahmed, Tarig Mohamed
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., King Faisal Univ., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Abstract :
Mobile agent systems are not fully utilized because many security problems need to be solved. Mobile agent specification language (MASL) is a new specification language. Users can use it to describe their agents. Secure mobile agent generator (SMAG) system is a new mobile agent system that uses MASL to generate secure agents. The system greatly reduces the security threats of mobile agents. It also incorporates a "mobile agent generator" that accepts general functional specification for an agent, and based on, it generates the executable. By using the C# language and the .NET framework, SMAG system has been implemented. To illustrate SMAG system, a Bookshop system has been designed and implemented by using the system infrastructure.
Keywords :
C language; formal specification; mobile agents; network operating systems; security of data; specification languages; Bookshop system; C language; MASL; NET framework; agent functional specification; distributed system; mobile agent specification language; mobile agent system; secure mobile agent generator; Computer science; Computer security; Distributed computing; Message passing; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Network servers; Programming profession; Protection; Specification languages; Distributed System; Mobile Agent; Mobility; Security of Mobile Agent;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2005. 25th IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2328-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICDCSW.2005.64