Key Distribution Framework for a Mobile Agent Platform

Author

Ismail, Leila ; Barka, Ezedin

Author_Institution

Coll. of IT, United Arab Emirates Univ., Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates

fYear

2008

fDate

16-19 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

281

Lastpage

287

Abstract

Mobile agents have been proposed as a distributed programming model for large-scale distributed systems. The model is appealing as a response to many of the challenges in today´s large scale distributed environments: efficiency, heterogeneity, autonomy, etc. Electronic commerce, data mining, and network management are examples of applications domains. Though the model is very well understood by industrial and research communities, aspects still need to be investigated. In this paper, we investigate a key distribution approach suitable for mobile agents. The approach takes into account the dynamic behavior of the system: in particular the dynamic agent itinerary and the dynamic platform topology where servers can join and disjoin for/from receiving mobile agents.

Keywords

data mining; distributed programming; electronic commerce; mobile agents; data mining; distributed programming; dynamic platform topology; electronic commerce; large-scale distributed systems; mobile agent; network management; Authentication; Context; Distributed computing; Large-scale systems; Mobile agents; Mobile computing; Network servers; Protection; Protocols; Web server; Mobile agents; PKI; authentication; distributed systems; security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, 2008. NGMAST '08. The Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cardiff

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3333-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NGMAST.2008.61

Filename

4756446