期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
印刷版ISSN：1738-7906
出版年度：2006
卷号：6
期号：12
页码：171-179
出版社：International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
摘要：Mobile agent system raises signi?cant security concerns and requires a thorough security framework, with a wide range of strategies and mechanisms, for the protection of both agents and agent hosts, against possibly malicious behavior. Researchers have identi?ed several security attacks. These are mainly from one host to another, from an agent to a host, from a host to an agent, and from one agent to another. In general, the behavior of mobile agents is often prescribed by the set of tasks represented in an itinerary. The design and implementation of an itinerary can be a complex, time intensive task, particularly in mobile agent architectures, where resources and task execution occur in a distributed network. Further, a mobile agent running on a host may attacks, if the host is malicious. The attacks may be on the agent’s static data, its collected information (dynamic data) and its itinerary. Hence itineraries must be made secure, in order to get secure agent behavior. In this paper, we propose the development of three protocols, which provide security and robustness to different kinds of agent itineraries and present a comparison of the performance of these protocols with some existing ones.
关键词：Secure mobile agent platform system (SMAPS), Itineraries, Mobile agent security, Serial itinerary, Parallel itinerary
