• DocumentCode
    2280304
  • Title

    Applications of mobile agents and related security issues

  • Author

    Ketel, Mohammed

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Inf. Technol., Baltimore Univ., MD
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    22-25 March 2007
  • Firstpage
    23
  • Lastpage
    28
  • Abstract
    The mobile agent (MA) paradigm with its properties of autonomy, asynchronicity, and local resource exploitation suits the needs of many distributed applications. The typical applications for MAs include information retrieval, e-commerce, mobile computing, and network management. However, there are many security issues associated with this technology. In this paper, we give an overview of MA and their applications, and discuss the security vulnerabilities at both the agent level and host/agent server level.
  • Keywords
    mobile agents; security of data; e-commerce; information retrieval; mobile agents; mobile computing; network management; security issues; Application software; Computer network management; Computer networks; Information retrieval; Information security; Mobile agents; Mobile computing; Network servers; Software agents; Space technology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    SoutheastCon, 2007. Proceedings. IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Richmond, VA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-1028-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1-4244-1029-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SECON.2007.342847
  • Filename
    4147377