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24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops - W4: MDC (ICDCSW'04)
pp. 548-553
A Reliable and Secure Connection Migration Mechanism for Mobile Agents
Xiliang Zhong, Wayne State University
Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University
Haiying Shen, Wayne State University
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Connection migration in mobile systems is to support continuous and transparent communication operations between mobile agents. This paper presents a reliable connection migration mechanism that provides exactly-once delivery for all transmitted data during agent migration. It integrates with an agent-based access control mechanism that controls the access to network ports. To avoid frequent agent authentication and permission checking due to agent migration, a secret session key is associated with each connection. We present the design and implementation of the mechanism, named NapletSocket in Naplet mobile agent system. It is a pure middleware implementation, requiring no modification of Java virtual machines. Evaluation results show that the NapletSocket system incurs a moderate overhead in connection setup, mainly due to security checking. Once a secure connection is established, only a marginal cost is needed to pay for reliable communication during agent migration.
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Xiliang Zhong, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Haiying Shen,
"A Reliable and Secure Connection Migration Mechanism for Mobile Agents,"
icdcsw,
pp. 548-553,
24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops - W4: MDC (ICDCSW'04),
2004
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