TY  - JOUR
AU  - Rhazi, Abdelmorhit E. 
AU  - Pierre, Samuel 
AU  - Boucheneb, Hanifa 
PY  - 2007
TI  - A Secure Protocol Based on a Sedentary Agent for Mobile Agent Environments
JF  - Journal of Computer Science
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
DO  - 10.3844/jcssp.2007.35.42
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/jcssp.2007.35.42
AB  - 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.