Matrix Hop Mobile Agent ( MHMA ) - A Novel Framework for Security Architecture

Mobile agent technology is a new computing paradigm appropriate for distributed computing environment. To eliminate various security issues and its corresponding solutions available in existing mobile agent systems like free roaming mobile agent, an alternative model has been developed called as MHMA (Matrix Hop Mobile System) system. In MHMA, the offer (offer means data) collected from the remote host is delivered to the owner before the mobile agent migrates to the next host. Also, this architecture protects the mobile agent platform against spam attacks carried out by the spam agents. This MHMA architecture includes fault tolerant mechanism which will helpful to resume the process even if the malicious host attacks the mobile agent and also used to identify the malicious host. Index Terms data protection, fault tolerant, Matrix hop mobile agent, Spam attacks, security.