Distributed transaction processing as a reliability concept for mobile agents

Author

Vogler, Hartmut ; Kunkelmann, Thomas ; Moschgath, Marie-Louise

Author_Institution

Inf. Technol. Transfer Office, Darmstadt Univ. of Technol., Germany

fYear

1997

fDate

29-31 Oct 1997

Firstpage

59

Lastpage

64

Abstract

Mobile agents offer a new possibility for the development of applications in distributed systems and are no longer a theoretical issue since different architectures for their implementations have been proposed. With the increasing market of electronic commerce it becomes an interesting idea to use autonomous mobile agents for electronic business transactions. Being involved in money transactions, supplementary security features for mobile agent systems have to be ensured. We present an architecture for a mobile agent system which offers fault tolerance for the whole agent system at a high level. This architecture additionally guarantees security for the host as well as security for the agent. To handle these issues for mobile agents we use various encryption mechanisms and we apply a novel method for mobile agent systems by using distributed transactions in our architecture. Due to this security architecture an agent will be enabled to carry out money transactions

Keywords

EFTS; computer network reliability; cryptography; electronic trading; security of data; software agents; software fault tolerance; transaction processing; autonomous mobile agents; distributed transaction processing; electronic business transactions; electronic commerce; encryption mechanisms; fault tolerance; mobile agents; money transactions; reliability concept; security features; Computer architecture; Computer science; Computer security; Consumer electronics; Cryptography; Electronic commerce; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Information technology; Mobile agents;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 1997., Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Future Trends of

Conference_Location

Tunis

ISSN

1071-0485

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8153-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FTDCS.1997.644704

Filename

644704