Design, Implementation, and Experimentation on Mobile Agent Security for Electronic Commerce Applications
نویسندگان
چکیده
In this paper, a Shopping Information Agent System (SIAS) is built based on mobile agent technology. It sends out agents to di erent hosts in an electronic marketplace. The agents collect and report information such as prices and availabilities about products speci ed by users. Snapshots of the system in use are shown. Security is a major problem of mobile agent systems, especially when money transactions are concerned. Possible security attacks by malicious hosts to agents in SIAS are discussed, and a solution to prevent these attacks is presented. Finally, security of the solution is analyzed, and the performance overhead introduced is
منابع مشابه
The Presentation of an Ideal Safe SMS based model in mobile Electronic commerce using Encryption hybrid algorithms AES and ECC
Mobile commerce is whatever electronic transfer or transaction via a mobile modem through a mobile net in which the true value or advance payment is done for goods, services or information. A mobile payment system should be beneficial for all related persons. For a payment system to be a Successful system, End-user, seller, exporter and operators should see a additional value in it. End-user ...
متن کاملPerspectives on Electronic Commerce with Mobile Agents
Electronic commerce is a driving force for IT. Mobile agents provit from this development, and offer substantial advantages for certain electronic commerce applications in return. Yet, a number of criteria should be applied to electronic commerce applications to assess which areas are best suited for mobile agents. A major requirement to build confidence in mobile agent technology is the availa...
متن کاملLAVA: Secure Delegation of Mobile Applets: Design, Implementation, and Applications
Mobile agents are tasks or processes which can be autonomously delegated or transferred from one network node to another. This distributed computing paradigm is modern and powerful. Many network-based applications have been developed or designed under this model. The application areas include, for example, intelligent agent, network and system management, web-based mobile applets, electronic co...
متن کاملEnhancing Mobile Agents with Electronic Commerce Capabilities
The paradigm of mobile agents offers a powerful and flexible opportunity to develop distributed applications on a high-level of abstraction. One of the most interesting tasks for mobile agents is an active search for relevant information in non-local domains on behalf of their users. A mobile agent will be sent out on behalf of an user to various host servers in the Internet and to find informa...
متن کاملThe Agent Pattern for Mobile Agent Systems
This paper presents the Agent pattern, a design pattern useful to develop dynamic and distributed applications. The Agent pattern provides a clean and easy way to develop agent-based applications, mainly in open and large-scale distributed environments such as the Internet and application areas such as Electronic Commerce. The Agent pattern encapsulates a business specific class (a specializati...
متن کامل