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A secure protocol based on a sedentary agent for mobile agent environments

Abdelmorhit El Rhazi, Samuel Pierre and Hanifa Boucheneb

Article (2007)

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The main challenge when deploying mobile agent environments pertains to security issues concerning mobile agents and their executive platform. This paper proposes a secure protocol which protects mobile agents against attacks from malicious hosts in these environments. Protection is based on the perfect cooperation of a sedentary agent running inside a trusted third host. Results show that the protocol detects several attacks, such as denial of service, incorrect execution and re-execution of the mobile agent code. Results also indicate that the traffic generated and run time are barely affected.

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Mobile agent security, mobile computing, denial of service

Subjects: 2700 Information technology > 2700 Information technology
Department: Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering
Research Center: LARIM - Mobile Computing and Networking Research Laboratory
PolyPublie URL: https://publications.polymtl.ca/5112/
Journal Title: Journal of Computer Science (vol. 3, no. 1)
Publisher: Science Publications
DOI: 10.3844/jcssp.2007.35.42
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2007.35.42
Date Deposited: 06 Nov 2020 11:11
Last Modified: 28 Sep 2024 01:45
Cite in APA 7: Rhazi, A. E., Pierre, S., & Boucheneb, H. (2007). A secure protocol based on a sedentary agent for mobile agent environments. Journal of Computer Science, 3(1), 35-42. https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2007.35.42

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