Performance evaluation of data integrity mechanisms for mobile agents

Gunupudi, Vandana; Tate, Stephen R.

doi:10.1109/itcc.2004.1286427

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“…Although the network trading [18] is different from the traditional trading but the basic functions of trading remain unchanged where consumer wants to buy product and services while suppliers supply them. BestDeal is a comparison internet shopping system where consumer (buyer) is represented by shopping mobile agent and suppliers are represented by selling agents.…”

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A Fault Tolerant Comparison Internet Shopping System: BestDeal by Using Mobile Agent

Pathak

Nipur

Garg

2009

2009 International Conference on Information Management and Engineering

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Mobile agents have been advocated to support electronic commerce over the Internet. While being a promising paradigm, many intricate problems such as security and fault tolerance need to be solved to make this vision reality. In this paper we have proposed a fault tolerant comparison internet shopping system BestDeal. We assume that both the mobile agent and the host responsible to execute Mobile Agent are test worthy and mobile agent does not get tampered, kidnapped or robbed on its way. Hierarchical Fault Tolerance Protocol (HFTP) has been used to make this application fault tolerant i.e. user, who launches the mobile agent receives it back with correct result within time limit in spite of hardware and software faults such as link failure, host failure, or crash of mobile agent or mobile agent system. Proposed protocol has been modeled by using CPN tools and been analyzed by using simulations and data gathering tools.

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A Fault Tolerant Comparison Internet Shopping System: BestDeal by Using Mobile Agent

Pathak

Nipur

Garg

2009

2009 International Conference on Information Management and Engineering

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Securing Mobile-Agent Systems through Collaboration

Hussain

Skillicorn

2010

Collaborative Computer Security and Trust Management

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Mobile agents are self-contained programs that migrate among computing devices to achieve tasks on behalf of users. Autonomous and mobile agents make it easier to develop complex distributed systems. Many applications can benefit greatly from employing mobile agents, especially e-commerce. For instance, mobile agents can travel from one e-shop to another, collecting offers based on customers’ preferences. Mobile agents have been used to develop systems for telecommunication networks, monitoring, information retrieval, and parallel computing. Characteristics of mobile agents, however, introduce new security issues which require carefully designed solutions. On the one hand, malicious agents may violate privacy, attack integrity, and monopolize hosts’ resources. On the other hand, malicious hosts may manipulate agents’ memory, return wrong results from system calls, and deny access to necessary resources. This has motivated research focused on devising techniques to address the security of mobile-agent systems. This chapter surveys the techniques securing mobile-agent systems. The survey categorizes the techniques based on the degree of collaboration used to achieve security. This categorization resembles the difference between this chapter and other surveys in the literature where categorization is on the basis of entities/ parts protected and underlying methodologies used for protection. This survey shows the importance of collaboration in enhancing security and discusses its implications and challenges.

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Performance evaluation of data integrity mechanisms for mobile agents

Cited by 2 publications

References 26 publications

A Fault Tolerant Comparison Internet Shopping System: BestDeal by Using Mobile Agent

A Fault Tolerant Comparison Internet Shopping System: BestDeal by Using Mobile Agent

Securing Mobile-Agent Systems through Collaboration

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