An Authenticated Paradigm for Mobile Agent System in Online Examination

Author

Hlaing, Swe Zin

Author_Institution

Univ. of Comput. Studies, Yangon

Volume

2

fYear

2009

fDate

22-24 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

420

Lastpage

424

Abstract

Mobile agents are active objects that can autonomously migrate in a heterogeneous network to perform tasks on behalf of their owners. Mobile agents also raise several security issues related to the protection of host resources and the data carried by an agent itself. In this paper, we present a framework which is concerned with creating Web-based services for virtual learning environment (VLE) related to student assessment using mobile agent technology. In our system, agents protect their secured data by carrying their own protection mechanisms and communicate with multiple agents using a single server. This system improves traditional solutions, where protection was managed by the agent. The authentication of mobile agents is controlled by using digital signature and a public key infrastructure. We have implemented this scheme in mobile aglet platform.

Keywords

Web services; computer aided instruction; digital signatures; educational administrative data processing; mobile agents; public key cryptography; Web-based services; authenticated paradigm; digital signature; host resource protection; mobile agent system; online examination; public key infrastructure; security issues; student assessment; virtual learning environment; Bandwidth; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Data security; Distributed computing; Electronic learning; Mobile agents; Network servers; Protection; Virtual environment; agent; digital; infrastructure; key; mobile; public; signature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Engineering and Technology, 2009. ICCET '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3334-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCET.2009.155

Filename

4769636