Secure protocol in mobile agent environment

Author

RHAZI, Abdelmorhit EL ; Pierre, Samuel ; Boucheneb, Hanifa

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Ecole Polytech. de Montreal, Que., Canada

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

4-7 May 2003

Firstpage

777

Abstract

The main problem that counters the deployment of the mobile agents environment is related to the security aspect of the mobile agents and the platform executing them. In this paper, we introduce a secure protocol for these environments which protects the mobile agents against the attacks of malicious hosts. The protection is based on the perfect cooperation of a sedentary agent running inside a trusted third host. The results have proved A El Rhazi (2003) that the protocol protects truly the mobile agent and the performances of the applications using this technology will not be severely affected.

Keywords

mobile agents; protocols; telecommunication security; telecommunication services; agent platform; denial of service; mobile agent; mobile agent protection; mobile agent security; mobile application; mobile host; secure protocol; sedentary agent; Computer crime; Computer networks; Counting circuits; Intelligent networks; Laboratories; Mobile agents; Mobile computing; Protection; Protocols; Security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2003. IEEE CCECE 2003. Canadian Conference on

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7781-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2003.1226010

Filename

1226010