Title :
A scalable and secure mobile agent based surrogate host system
Author :
Das, Amitabha ; Kee, Eric Ong Leng
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
Mobile agents represent a distributed computing paradigm in which software migrates autonomously from one host in a network to another. In spite of its promises, mobile agent systems have not gained substantial acceptance because of the security concerns that have not been adequately addressed yet. In this paper, we propose an architecture that allows user programs to run on third party hosts called Surrogate hosts. The architecture presents a hybrid approach utilizing both mobile agent paradigm as well as client-server paradigm. Apart from extending the computing power of the user system, the proposed surrogate host system allows users to run their applications while the user system remains disconnected. The proposed architecture reduces the stringency of security requirements of mobile agents based systems, is scaleable and uses a load balancing mechanism to evenly distribute the user programs
Keywords :
Internet; client-server systems; distributed processing; security of data; software agents; client-server paradigm; distributed computing paradigm; hybrid approach; load balancing mechanism; mobile agent based surrogate host system; security concerns; security requirements; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Data security; Distributed computing; Information security; Mobile agents; Mobile computing; Personal digital assistants; Power engineering computing; Power system security;
Conference_Titel :
TENCON 2001. Proceedings of IEEE Region 10 International Conference on Electrical and Electronic Technology
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7101-1
DOI :
10.1109/TENCON.2001.949698
