Mobile IP is the proposed standard for IP based mobile internetworking by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). A mobile node registers its current location with its home agent when it moves across IP subnets in a foreign network. IP datagrams for the mobile node are routed to its home agent before being tunneled to the mobile node through its current foreign agent. When a mobile node is ...

In the recent time the computer systems have evolved from monolithic computing device to much complex client-server environment. Mobile-agent paradigm is one such technology. It has numerous application where it can be beneficial, to name a few areas where the mobile-agents have potential deployment are database search, distributed systems and e-commerce. This technology has given a new directi...

The applications of mobile agent technology are various and include electronic commerce, personal assistance, parallel processing ... The use of mobile agent paradigm provides several advantages. Unfortunately, it has introduced some problems. Security represents an important issue. Current researches efforts in the area of mobile agent security follow two aspects: (i) protection of the hosts f...