A brief introduction to software agent technology
Agent technology
Security implications of implementing active network infrastructures using agent technology
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Active networks and services
Place Oriented Virtual Private Networks
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 8 - Volume 8
Alien: a generalized computing model of active networks
Alien: a generalized computing model of active networks
A survey of active network research
IEEE Communications Magazine
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Security-enabled code deployment for heterogeneous networks
Computer Standards & Interfaces
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The deployment of sophisticated telecommunication services poses demanding design and implementation challenges to the underlying infrastructure. The end-goal of more flexibility, fault tolerance, quality of services, intelligence, component-based service integration, service personalization, programmability, openness and of course security in a heterogeneous infrastructure can be reasonably achieved via active and programmable networks. In this paper, we first investigate an integrated architecture for active and programmable network infrastructures that is based on mobile agent technology. Subsequently we present a security architecture for our node and comment on its functionality and technology choices made. At the end a dynamic VPN deployment with nomadic user support scenario is analyzed in order to argue about the pros and cons offered by this approach.