Digital copyright protection
A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems
Communications of the ACM
Programming and Deploying Java Mobile Agents Aglets
Programming and Deploying Java Mobile Agents Aglets
A Secure Route Structure for Information Gathering Agent
PRIMA '00 Proceedings of the Third Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents: Design and Applications of Intelligent Agents
Methods for Protecting a Mobile Agent's Route
ISW '99 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Information Security
Dispatching Multiple Mobile Agents in Parallel for Visiting E-Shops
MDM '02 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Mobile Data Management
An optimized hierarchical model for agent-mediated e-commerce
MCBE'07 Proceedings of the 8th Conference on 8th WSEAS Int. Conference on Mathematics and Computers in Business and Economics - Volume 8
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For mobile agents to be widely accepted in a distributed environment like the Internet, performance and security issues on their use have to be addressed. In this paper, we first present a parallel dispatch model with secure dispatch route structures. This model facilitates efficient dispatching of agents in a hierarchical manner, and ensures route security by exposing minimal route information to hosts. To further enhance route robustness, we also propose a mechanism with substitute routes that can bypass temporarily unreachable hosts, dispatch agents to substitute hosts before attempting the failed hosts again. Finally, a model for distributing the load of decrypting substitute routes is presented. We also present results of both analytical and empirical studies to evaluate different models.