Protecting Service Providers by Using Agent Virtual Machine

Author

Ahmed, Tarig Mohamed

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., King Faisal Univ.

fYear

2005

fDate

26-26 Aug. 2005

Firstpage

236

Lastpage

240

Abstract

Mobile agent systems are still not fully utilized because many security problems need to be solved. Agent virtual machine (AVM) is a new mechanism that protects service providers (hosts) against malicious mobile agent. It prevents the mobile agent from executing any type of attacks. AVM is an interpreter that deals with the mobile agent as byte code. AVM mechanism has been implemented in Secure Mobile Agent Generator (SMAG) system. SMAG is a new mobile agent system. The system greatly reduces the security threats of the mobile agents. It also incorporates a \´\´mobile agent generator" that accepts general functional specification for an agent. SMAG system has been implemented by using C# language and .NET framework. To illustrate SMAG system, a Bookshop system has been designed and implemented by using the system infrastructure

Keywords

distributed programming; mobile agents; security of data; virtual machines; AVM interpreter; Bookshop system; DOTNET framework; SMAG system; Secure Mobile Agent Generator system; agent virtual machine; distributed system; functional specification; malicious mobile agent; mobile agent security threat; mobile agent system; mobility management; service provider protection; Communication system security; Computer science; Computer security; Data security; Message passing; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Network servers; Protection; Virtual machining; Distributed System; Mobile Agent; Mobility; Security of Mobile Agent;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2005. Proceedings. Sixteenth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Copenhagen

ISSN

1529-4188

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2424-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEXA.2005.159

Filename

1508279