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International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications

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Protecting Mobile Agent Itineraries

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Mobile agents are believed to be playing an important role in future e-commerce systems, offering great flexibility and improved performance. Mobile agents are processes which can autonomously migrate from host to host. The migration path followed by an agent can be abstracted for programming convenience into an itinerary. A flexible structure of itinerary is used in Concordia or Ajanta Agent Systems, using sequence, alternative, and set entries.

On the other hand, security is a fundamental precondition for the acceptance of mobile agent systems. Several itinerary protection protocols have been presented for each kind of entry. This paper improves previous solutions proposing a unique general protocol using petri net modeling, providing minimum route information to visited hosts, and strong protection against tampering and itinerary analysis attacks.

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  1. Computer Science Dept., Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Edifici Q, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain

    Joan Mir & Joan Borrell

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  1. Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris VI, 8, Rue du capitaine Scott, 75015, Paris, France

    Eric Horlait

  2. FOKUS Fraunhofer-Institute for Open Communication Systems, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31, 10589, Berlin, Germany

    Thomas Magedanz

  3. Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve West Bd, H3G 1M8, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Roch H. Glitho

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Mir, J., Borrell, J. (2003). Protecting Mobile Agent Itineraries. In: Horlait, E., Magedanz, T., Glitho, R.H. (eds) Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications. MATA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2881. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39646-8_26

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