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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsA Secure Mobile Agent System against Tailgating AttacksP. Marikkannu, Adri Jovin, PurusothamanProblem statement: A lot of real time applications have extended their hands towards Mobile Agents to accomplish various tasks, due to its flexibility in its functionalities. Since Mobile Agent Systems are used in a distributed environment, it is obvious that they may be vulnerable to various security threats. Most of the security threats faced by the mobile agent systems are … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 4 · 4 Apr 2011 · 6,944 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSECURE COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL FOR PROTECTING COMPUTATION RESULT OF FREE ROAMING MOBILE AGENTG. Geetha, C. JayakumarMobile agent plays an important role in developing applications of open, distributed and mixed environments, such as the internet. Mobile agent or mobile software agent is piece of software that can operate autonomously to accomplish user assigned task. To explain more, mobile agent is the process which can migrate to hosts autonomously. As an agent travels to do execution in … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 7 · 19 Feb 2014 · 6,800 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractResearch on Security Protocol for Collaborating Mobile Agents in Network Intrusion Detection SystemsOlumide Simeon Ogunnusi, Shukor Abd RazakDespite the popularity of mobile agents in academic and commercial arena, the security issues associated with them have hindered their adoption on large scale distributed applications. However, researchers are making relentless effort to overcome the security impediments so that the interesting properties inherent in mobile agent application, especially in the field of intrusion detection, can be harnessed. Such properties include: … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 12 · 7 Nov 2013 · 6,702 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Secure Protocol Based on a Sedentary Agent for Mobile Agent EnvironmentsAbdelmorhit E. Rhazi, Samuel Pierre, Hanifa BouchenebThe main challenge when deploying mobile agent environments pertains to security issues concerning mobile agents and their executive platform. This paper proposes a secure protocol which protects mobile agents against attacks from malicious hosts in these environments. Protection is based on the perfect cooperation of a sedentary agent running inside a trusted third host. Results show that the protocol detects … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 3, Issue 1 · 31 Jan 2007 · 6,878 accessesView PDF Cite