Distributed authorization framework for mobile agents

Authors:
G. Navarro;J. A. Ortega-Ruiz;J. Ametller;S. Robles
Affiliations:
Dept. of Information and Communications Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain;Institute for Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), Barcelona, Spain;Dept. of Information and Communications Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain;Dept. of Information and Communications Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
Venue:
MATA'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Mobile agent systems provide new perspectives for distributed e-commerce applications. These applications may present specific restrictions, making mobile agent systems a feasible solution. Even so, mobile agents present some security related problems. An important one is resource access control. The ability for mobile agents to provide a simple, scalable, flexible, and secure access control system is a key point for the widespread adoption of mobile agents. In this paper we propose a mechanism to safely assign roles to mobile agents and an access control method based on Role-based Access Control (RBAC). The access control method provides a simple, lightweight and distributed model for mobile agent applications. It is proposed as an extension of the MARISM-A (An Architecture for Mobile Agents with Recursive Itineraries and Secure Migration) project, a secure mobile agent platform.