Modeling of security and fault tolerance in mobile codes
Authors
Mr. A. Vafaei, Khaje Nasir Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Dr. Hojat Hamidi, Khaje Nasir Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The reliable execution of a mobile agent is a very important design issue in building a mobile agent system and many fault-tolerant schemes have been proposed so far. Security is a major problem of mobile agent systems, especially when money transactions are concerned . Security for the partners involved is handled by encryption methods based on a public key authentication mechanism and by secret key encryption of the communication. In this paper, we examine qualitatively the security considerations and challenges in application development with the mobile code paradigm. We identify a simple but crucial security requirement for the general acceptance of the mobile code paradigm, and evaluate the current status of mobile code development in meeting this requirement. We find that the mobile agent approach is the most interesting and challenging branch of mobile code in the security context. Therefore, we built a simple agent-based information retrieval application, the Traveling Information Agent system, and discuss the security issues of the system in particulars.
4th Mosharaka International Conference on Communications, Propagation, and Electronics (MIC-CPE 2011)
Congress
2011 Global Congress on Communications, Propagation, and Electronics (GC-CPE 2011), 4-6 February 2011, Amman, Jordan
Pages
--1
Topics
Network Modeling and Simulation Optical Communication Networks
ISSN
2227-331X
DOI
BibTeX
@inproceedings{62CPE2011,
title={Modeling of security and fault tolerance in mobile codes},
author={A. Vafaei, and Hojat Hamidi},
booktitle={2011 Global Congress on Communications, Propagation, and Electronics (GC-CPE 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={--1},
doi={}},
organization={Mosharaka for Research and Studies}
}
