Mobile Agent Data Integrity Using Multi-Agent Architecture

Abstract

Mobile agents represent an alternative way of designing and implementing distributed systems. Security issues for mobile agents continue to produce research interest, particularly in developing mechanisms that guarantee protection of agent data and agent computations in the presence of malicious hosts. By integrating multi-agent architecture into the mobile agent paradigm, data protection can be better addressed in terms of the classical problems of insertion, deletion, and alteration. We propose a method to prevent data integrity attacks by separating the task of agent data Computation from agent data collection and assigning these roles to separate classes of cooperating agents.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA425102

Entities

People

  • Alec Yasinsac
  • Jeffrey T. Mcdonald
  • Willard C. Thompson Iii

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Commerce
  • Computations
  • Computer Communications
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Denial Of Service Attack
  • Detection
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Fish
  • Mobile Phones
  • Networks
  • Resilience
  • Security Protocols
  • Theoretical Computer Science

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Government and Public Administration Law.