Mobile Agent Platform and Naming Scheme of Agents

Mobile agent technology has drawn a tremendous amount of attention from researchers in distributed computing recently as it promises to provide an elegant and efficient way of solving complex distributed problems, as well as offering a new approach to human-computer-interaction. In mobile agent systems, the mobile agent travels autonomously from one computer to another within the agent enabled networks, executes itself in the agent execution environment, collects useful information and makes its own decision or behalf of its owner. This mobility nature of mobile agent demands its unique name in the whole network otherwise it gets lost or conflicts with other mobile agent having same name. This paper proposes a naming scheme which promises a unique name for a mobile agent within that network. Key words mobile agent - mobile agent platform - naming scheme

Node Coverage Algorithms in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Mobile Agents

This paper proposes fault tolerant algorithms for routing mobile agents in a single channel wireless sensor network which cover every node in the network. These algorithms use local knowledge (assume no knowledge of global deployment or topology, etc). We propose the algorithms and show mathematical analysis to support our claims. The paper ends with simulation studies and discussion of results.

基于Multi-Mobile Agent的决策模型在电子政务中的应用

电子政务是"信息高速公路"的首要应用领域,各国政府信息化的首要目标就是建立电子政府,推行电子政务。基于Multi-Agent和Mobile-Agent的电子政务协同决策方法,是利用Agent内部的知识库和推理规则进行智能决策,通过资源测评体系进行硬性挑选,从一定程度上减少了弄虚作假的可能,保证了政府部门以开放的机制进行人事决策,更有利于用客观和科学的准则来保证决策的公平公正性。

Study of Interoperability in Mobile Agent Environment

The paper mainly represents how to solve the problem. OMG CORBA, MASIF and FIPA standards are closely analysed here, then are combined to guarantee the interoperability of Mobile Agent System. We present four layer of interoperability in our system and the method to implement it and compare our system to the existing system. Key words mobile agent - interoperability - CORBA - MASIF - FIPA CLC number TP 391 Foundation item: Supported by the Key Science and Techndology project of Wuhan City(20011007087)Biography: PENG De-wei (1976-), male, Ph. D. candidate, research direction: mobile agent, distributed computing and web systems

Mobile Internet Mobile Agent System Dynamic Trust Model for Cloud Computing

In mobile cloud computing,trust is a very important parameter in mobile cloud computing security because data storage and data processing are performed remotely in the cloud.Aiming at the security and trust management of mobile agent system in mobile cloud computing environment,the Human Trust Mechanism(HTM)is used to study the subjective trust formation,trust propagation and trust evolution law,and the subjective trust dynamic management algorithm(MASTM)is proposed.Based on the interaction experience between the mobile agent and the execution host and the third-party recommendation information to collect the basic trust data,the public trust host selection algorithm is given.The isolated malicious host algorithm and the integrated trust degree calculation algorithm realize the function of selecting the trusted cluster and isolating the malicious host,so as to enhance the security interaction between the mobile agent and the host.Given algorithm simulation and verification were carried out to prove its feasibility and effectiveness.

Optimization in the Migration Problem of Mobile Agents in Distributed Information Retrieval Systems

In this paper, we employ genetic algorithms to solve the migration problem (MP). We propose a new encoding scheme to represent trees, which is composed of two parts: the pre-ordered traversal sequence of tree vertices and the children number sequence of corresponding tree vertices. The proposed encoding scheme has the advantages of simplicity for encoding and decoding, ease for GA operations, and better equilibrium between exploration and exploitation. It is also adaptive in that, with few restrictions on the length of code, it can be freely lengthened or shortened according to the characteristics of the problem space. Furthermore, the encoding scheme is highly applicable to the degree-constrained minimum spanning tree problem because it also contains the degree information of each node. The simulation results demonstrate the higher performance of our algorithm, with fast convergence to the optima or sub-optima on various problem sizes. Comparing with the binary string encoding of vertices, when the problem size is large, our algorithm runs remarkably faster with comparable search capability. Key words distributed information retrieval - mobile agents - migration problem - genetic algorithms CLC number TP 301. 6 Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (90104005), the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University under the grant G-YD63Biography: He Yan-xiang (1952-), male, Professor, research direction: distributed and parallel processing, multi-agent systems, data mining and e-business.

A Forward Integrity and Itinerary Secrecy Protocol for Mobile Agents

The security problem of mobile agents is widely being discussed. The problem which protects mobile agents from malicious hosts is difficult to solve, because a host has access to the complete internal state of an agent. Forward integrity in mobile agents guarantees that offers contained in a mobile agent from previously visited host can not be modified by a malicious host. Itinerary secrecy can prevent mobile agent from being passively attack. This paper proposes a new forward integrity and itinerary secrecy protocol for mobile agent. The protocol can also resist collusion truncation attack.

A Mobile Agent-Based Prototype of HeterogeneousDistributed Virtual Environment Systems

Mobile agents provide a new method for the distributed computation. This paper presents the advantages of using mobile agents in a distributed virtual environment (DVE) system, and describes the architecture of heterogeneous computer's distributed virtual environment system (HCWES) designed to populate some mobile agents as well as stationary agents. Finally, the paper introduces how heterogeneous computer network communication is to be realized.

High Efficiency and Light Mobile Electronic Business System Based on Mobile Agent Middleware

Mobile Network technology has been being the research focus during the 1990’s. The middleware technology is imported for the sake of running distributed transaction smoothly. In this paper, a mobile agent based middleware high efficiency mobile electronic business oriented middleware (HEMEBOM) is designed and implemented based on the requirement and background of collaborative electronic business. Its architecture, elements and excellent properties are mainly focused. Then high efficiency mobile electronic business system μMcommerce is built using HEMEBOM.

Using Mobile Agents to Implement Workflow System

Current workflow management systems usually adopt the existing technologies such as TCP/IP-based Web technologies and CORBA as well to fulfill the bottom communications. Very often it has been considered only from a theoretical point of view, mainly for the lack of concrete possibilities to execute with elasticity. MAT (Mobile Agent Technology) represents a very attractive approach to the distributed control of computer networks and a valid alternative to the implementation of strategies for workflow system. This paper mainly focuses on improving the performance of workflow system by using MAT. Firstly, the performances of workflow systems based on both CORBA and mobile agent are summarized and analyzed; Secondly, the performance contrast is presented by introducing the mathematic model of each kind of data interaction process respectively. Last, a mobile agentbased workflow system named MAWMS is presented and described in detail. Key words workflow - Mobile Agent - Contract Net Protocol - CORBA - Web CLC number TP 393 Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60272024) and National Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province (0411014100)Biography: LI Jie, (1975-), male, lector, Ph. D., research direction: workflow, mobile agent, network management.

A DRM System Based on Mobile Agent for Digital Rights Redistribution

We propose a digital rights management （DRM） system based on mobile agent to protect the copyrights of content providers. In the system, the content provider creates a time limited blackbox out of an original agent and dispatches it to the user end to enforce DRM functions. The blackbox is an agent that can resist the attacks from the malicious user in a certain time interval. Owing to digital rights redistribution support, the user whose rights belong to redistribution category can transfer his rights to other users. Moreover, by introducing public key infrastructure （PKI） and certificate authority （CA） role, the security of the session can be ensured. An analysis of system security and performance and a comparison with traditional DRM system is given.

Mobile Agent Based Framework for Integrating Digital Library System

Few of the current approaches to achieve the integration of digital library system have considered the influence of network factors on quality of service for the integration system of digital libraries. For this reason, a mobile agent based framework for integrating digital library system is proposed. Based on this framework, a prototype system is implemented and the key technique for it are described. Compared with the current approaches, using mobile agent technique to achieve the integration of digital library system can not only avoid transmitting a lot of data on the network, lower the dependence on network bandwidth for the system, but also improve the quality of service for the integration system of digital libraries in intermitted or unreliable network connection settings.

Design on PKI-Based Anonymous Mobile Agent Security in E-Commerce

The security of mobile agent directly decides its usage width in e-commerce. Especially, to protect users＇ private information is becoming more important now and future. So an anonymous mobile agent security mechanism with the secure authentication infrastructure based on PKI （public key infrastructure） is proposed in the paper. The multi-agent system is programmed by java language and every agent must register itself in CA （certificate authority） before working in the net and express his legit identity which is temptly produced and used only once. The CA ensures the legal of all agents＇ identity which take part in communicaiton or trade. And every user agent identity only is used once which makes other agents cannot decipher users＇ private information. The security mechanism of the multi-agent system implements anonymity, integrity, data confidentiality of mobile agent based on the MH（multiple hop） integrity protection regard to PKI limit.

TThe Geographic Information Grid System Based on Mobile Agent

We analyze the deficiencies of current application systems, and discuss the key requirements of distributed Geographie Information serviee （GIS）, We construct the distributed GIS on grid platform. Considering the flexibility and efficiency, we integrate the mobile agent technology into the system. We propose a new prototype system, the Geographic Information Grid System （GIGS） based on mobile agent. This system has flexible services and high performance, and improves the sharing of distributed resources. The service strategy of the system and the examples are also presented.

An Anonymous Payment Protocol withMobile Agents in Hostile Environments

By using Pedersen's verifiable secret sharing scheme and the theory of crossvalidation, we propose an a-nonymous payment protocol which have following features: protecting theconfidentiality of sensitive payment information from spying by malicioushosts; using a trustedthird party in a minimal way; verifying the validity of the share by the merchant; allowing agent toverify that the product which it is a-bout to receive is the one it is paying for; keeping thecustomer anonymous.

Research on Intelligent Mobile Commerce Transaction Security Mechanisms Based on Mobile Agent

In networked mobile commerce network transactions,trust is the prerequisite and key to a smooth transaction.The measurement of trust between entities involves factors such as transaction amount,transaction time,personal income of consumer entities and their risk attitude towards trust,etc.,so it is difficult to accurately calculate quantitatively.In order to find out the essential characteristics of this trust relationship,based on the research background of mobile commerce in the mobile network environment,a dynamic trust mechanism is proposed through the research of trust in the mobile network environment,trust influencing factors and trust mechanism.The calculation model of mobile interactive services based on mobile service business transactions.The model calculates feedback credibility through feedback deviation and feedback robustness,and combines transaction context factors and trust mapping mechanism to judge the seller’s credibility.This model better reflects the degree of influence of subjective factors such as personal preferences and risk attitudes on trust calculations,And the sensitivity of trust algorithms and transaction attributes has been greatly improved.After a large number of experiments and theoretical analysis,this mechanism provides an effective explanation for solving the problem of network trust computing.and provides valuable new ideas for the study of secure transactions in the mobile Internet environment.

Developing Check-Point Mechanism to Protect Mobile Agent Free-Roaming Against Untrusted Hosts

Mobile Agent has many benefits over traditional distributed systems such as reducing latency,bandwidth,and costs.Mobile Agent Systems are not fully utilized due to security problems.This paper focuses on mobile agent protection against malicious hosts.A new security mechanism called Checkpoints has been proposed.Checkpoint Mechanism(CPM)aims to protect Mobile Agent against malicious hosts in case of Capturing and Integrity attacks.CPM assumes using a free-roaming mobility mechanism by Mobile agent systems.The main idea behind CPM is to generate multiple versions of Mobile Agent.The multiple version is used to recover Mobile Agent from Capturing and Integrity attacks by untrusted hosts.MA versions are kept in Recovery Host(RH).RH plays a key role in CPM by controlling and monitoring MAs’recovery processes.A prototype method has been used to prove the feasibility of CPM.The p https://dsr.kau.edu.sa/Default-305-ARrototype was implemented by using the.Net framework and C#.full discussion for several scenarios has been done to analyze the feasibility and performance for CPM.As found from this research,CPM has a strong ability to protect Mobile Agents from Capturing and Integrity attacks completely.In addition,there is no negative impact on the overall performance of the mobile agent system.

Wireless Application Protocol for Potential Threats to Mobile Agent Network Security

The wireless application protocol （WAP） protocol is now the leading standard for information services on wireless terminals like digital mobile phones. By the use of WAP, wireless devices, like mobile phones, are possibly infected with virus and worms. Though up to now there is no such attack, as the usage of script languages increases, there is a chance of malicious code injection. This paper discusses the threats with current WAP protocol, and how changes in the protocol and the increase in its usage will enable entry of real viruses. Future threat scenarios are presented along with suggestions to avoid these problems.

A Review on Distribution Model for Mobile Agent-Based Information Leakage Prevention

With the continuous use of cloud and distributed computing, the threats associated with data and information technology (IT) in such an environment have also increased. Thus, data security and data leakage prevention have become important in a distributed environment. In this aspect, mobile agent-based systems are one of the latest mechanisms to identify and prevent the intrusion and leakage of the data across the network. Thus, to tackle one or more of the several challenges on Mobile Agent-Based Information Leakage Prevention, this paper aim at providing a comprehensive, detailed, and systematic study of the Distribution Model for Mobile Agent-Based Information Leakage Prevention. This paper involves the review of papers selected from the journals which are published in 2009 and 2019. The critical review is presented for the distributed mobile agent-based intrusion detection systems in terms of their design analysis, techniques, and shortcomings. Initially, eighty-five papers were identified, but a paper selection process reduced the number of papers to thirteen important reviews.

General Study of Mobile Agent Based Intrusion Detection System (IDS)

The extensive access of network interaction has made present networks more responsive to earlier intrusions. In distributed network intrusions, there are many computing nodes that are assisted by intruders. The evidence of intrusions is to be associated from all the held up nodes. From the last few years, mobile agent based technique in intrusion detection system (IDS) has been widely used to detect intrusion over distributed network. This paper presented survey of several existing mobile agent based intrusion detection system and comparative analysis report between them. Furthermore we have focused on each attribute of analysis, for example technique (NIDS, HIDS or Hybrid), behavior layer, detection techniques for analysis, uses of mobile agent and technology used by existing IDS, strength and issues. Their strengths and issues are situational wherever appropriate. We have observed that some of the existing techniques are used in IDS which causes low detection rate, behavior layers like TCP connection for packet capturing which is most important activity in NIDS and response time (technology execution time) with memory consumption by mobile agent as major issues.