Methods for Protecting a Mobile Agent’s Route

Westhoff, Dirk; Schneider, Markus; Unger, Claus; Kaderali, Firoz

doi:10.1007/3-540-47790-x_7

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“…In [4,5] Westhoffet describe methods for the protection of the agent's route against hosts spying out route information. One technique for ensuring that a mobile agent arrives safely at its destination is through the use of replication and voting [7].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Simulation of Dynamic Mobile Agent Model to Prevent Denial of Service Attack using CPNS

Nupur¹,

Murgai²

2011

IJCA

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Mobile Agents are soft wares migrating from one node to another to fulfill the task of its owner. In Static mobile agents, agent travels on the predefined path whereas in Dynamic mobile agents, agent route is decided by the host or the agent itself, which makes security much more difficult in it. Mobile agents are not properly utilized because of security concerns. Security becomes more challenging in Dynamic mobile agents as compared to Static mobile agent. One such challenge is ‗Denial of Service', in it the malicious host may deny resources required by the agent and kill the agent, thus the result computed so far is lost and this may happen every time the agent visits any malicious host. Colored Petri Nets (CPNs) is a language for the modeling and validation of systems in which concurrency, synchronization and communication play a major role. In our previous paper we have simulated and obtained the results for static mobile agent but in real world agents are dynamic. This paper simulates dynamic mobile agent model that enables the owner of the agent to detect the malicious host. The simulation has been done using CPNs, the result clearly proves that owner can detect the malicious hosts and thus prevent Denial of service attack to occur in future KeywordsDynamic mobile agent; denial of service attack; colored petrinets; independent and dependent mobile agent..

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Simulation of Dynamic Mobile Agent Model to Prevent Denial of Service Attack using CPNS

Nupur¹,

Murgai²

2011

IJCA

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“…In [3,4] Westhoffet al describe methods for the protection of the agent's route against hosts spying out route information. One technique for ensuring that a mobile agent arrives safely at its destination is through the use of replication and voting [6].…”

Section: Detection Procedurementioning

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Protecting Dynamic Mobile Agent against Denial of Service Attacks

Nipur¹,

Pallavi²,

Patel³

et al. 2010

AIP Conference Proceedings

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Abstract-Mobile Agents are softwares migrating from one node to another to fulfill the task of its owner. The introduction of mobile agents has reduced network latency, network traffic a lot but at the same time it has increased the vulnerability for attacks by malicious hosts. One such attack is 'Denial of Service', once the agent is launched it is free to roam without any control of its owner, this on one hand decreases the cost of agent -owner interaction and on the other hand increases the chances of 'Denial Of Service'. In Denial Of Service attack the malicious host may deny resources required by the agent and kill the agent, thus the result computed so far is lost and this may happen every time the agent visits any malicious host. In this paper we continued the work done in [10] in which the authors proposed techniques by which owner can detect the malicious host for 'Denial Of Service' but they did not covered technique for dynamic routes i.e. where the host or agent initiate migrations to hosts which were not contained in the route composed by the owner. We introduced an algorithm and a model which can be useful for the above purpose.

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“…There have been different approaches proposed to protect the platform, host, agent, and route (Westhoff, Schneider, Unger, & Kaderali, 1999). Recently, in order to secure the communication between agents on different hosts, Java Agent Development Framework (JADE) has enabled the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol to provide confidentiality and integrity for all intra-platform connections (Bellifemine, Caire, Poggi, & Rimassa, 2003).…”

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Transaction Flow in Card Payment Systems Using Mobile Agents

Vincent¹,

Folorunso²,

Akinwale

et al. 2010

IJIKM

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In this paper, a system for controlling transaction flow in card-based payment systems and its performance benefit using mobile agents is presented. The model consists of the negotiation semantics, the mobile agent module, and three interactive systems in e-payment: the bank, point-of-sale (POS), and the Interswitch. We present a mobile agent-based scenario for e-payment system and discuss the negotiation scheme and techniques that provide security for the model. Our scheme requires no interaction with the originator once the mobile agents are sent out. This is particularly of advantage in a situation when the user cannot stay online for a long period of time. Comparing our model with that of traditional Remote Procedure Call (RPC), the result shows that our scheme is more reliable and faster.

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Methods for Protecting a Mobile Agent’s Route

Cited by 18 publications

References 17 publications

Simulation of Dynamic Mobile Agent Model to Prevent Denial of Service Attack using CPNS

Simulation of Dynamic Mobile Agent Model to Prevent Denial of Service Attack using CPNS

Protecting Dynamic Mobile Agent against Denial of Service Attacks

Transaction Flow in Card Payment Systems Using Mobile Agents

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