Security in Mobile agent systems with Locator mechanism

The Mobile agent system is a distributed computing environment that is perceived as a flexible alternative to client server technology. The agents possessing different functionalities roam in the network executing a task in the target hosts. This helps in reducing network traffic to a large extent. The vulnerability of mobile agents to a variety of attacks is the prominent concern for this technology to be applied more extensively. The existing scenario of employing different architectures does not provide a complete secure application. The proposed prototype here mainly concerns security from major categories of attacks with some extended features. This paper outlines an efficient locator mechanism for dealing with the stated issues.