Mobile Agents System Security

Abstract

A pivotal cause for the boom of Mobile Agent paradigm relies on the competence to ward off security attacks. This article surveys the prevalent attacks on the mobile agents and the agent platforms; the existing countermeasures and their curbs, catering threefold benefaction: First, to acquaint the researchers with numerous security requirements and the objectives. Second, to analyze the different detection and prevention mechanisms mitigating the security bottlenecks in Mobile Agents System. Third, to address the future security challenges. In a nutshell, this survey hands over a key to researchers who primarily target the security concerns of the mobile agent-based applications.

Dummy-Based Approach for Protecting Mobile Agents Against Malicious Destination Machines

“…The problem with the EKG-based technique is related to generalization, where it limits the execution of the visiting mobile agent to the conditions that must be satisfied on the DM side. In other words, it is unsuitable for certain applications since it may lead to the blocking of the execution of the visiting agent [28]. Furthermore, all the approaches mentioned above suffer from low resistance to advanced attacks, such as alternation attacks, collusion attacks, and denial of service (DoS) attacks, according to previous works [2,28].…”

“…In other words, it is unsuitable for certain applications since it may lead to the blocking of the execution of the visiting agent [28]. Furthermore, all the approaches mentioned above suffer from low resistance to advanced attacks, such as alternation attacks, collusion attacks, and denial of service (DoS) attacks, according to previous works [2,28]. Beyond that, from a security point of view, the whole protection mechanism should be performed on the HM side (user or agent owner side).…”

“…In the security field of ABST, researchers have classified security approaches into two main categories according to the surveys conducted in the works [2,28]: (1) protecting agent platform (PAP) and (2) protecting mobile agent (PMA) approaches. Table I shows the main difference between the two categories.…”

“…An alternation attack can be converted into a more dangerous attack, called a collusion attack [2,28]. In collusion attacks, two malicious DMs (or more) collude to modify the results.…”

Quality of Service (QoS) Aware Workflow Scheduling (WFS) in Cloud Computing: A Systematic Review

“…While writing this paper, many other survey papers such as [100][101][102] from different fields of study as well as different journals have been analyzed thoroughly to accustom the authors' art of showing up their works, which eventually emanates this literature work. The literature is categorized into following four distinct sub-areas attaining prominence from various research perspectives:…”