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A Secure Protocol Based on a Sedentary Agent for Mobile Agent Environments

Abdelmorhit E. Rhazi, Samuel Pierre and Hanifa Boucheneb

Abstract

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.

Journal of Computer Science
Volume 3 No. 1, 2007, 35-42

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2007.35.42

Submitted On: 25 July 2006 Published On: 31 January 2007

How to Cite: 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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Keywords

  • Mobile agent security
  • mobile computing
  • denial of service