Abstract
Among the various inter-agent communication models proposed for multi-agent systems so far, several group communication schemes have been issued to guarantee the transparent communication among the agents. However, in mobile agent environments where each agent has mobility in the network, those schemes are not sufficient to fully handle the topological change caused by the migration of mobile agents. Also, these group communication schemes should be secure in order for them to be practical. In this paper, we propose a secure group communication scheme which applies the hierarchical overlay ring structure of mobile agents. The proposed scheme uses the ring channel in order to cope adaptively with the change of ring topology. The ring channel has the fundamental information to construct the ring and is managed by only the mobile agent platforms. Therefore, each mobile agent does not need to directly handle the ring channel and can perform group communication regardless of the changing ring topology.
This research was supported by MKE, Korea under ITRC IITA-2009-(C1090-0902-0046).
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Cho, K., Hattori, M., Ohsuga, A., Honiden, S.: Picoplangent: An Intelligent Mobile Agent System for Ubiquitous Computing. In: Barley, M.W., Kasabov, N. (eds.) PRIMA 2004. LNCS (LNAI), vol. 3371, pp. 43–56. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)
Aneiba, A., Rees, S.J.: Mobile Agents Technology and Mobility. In: Proc. of the 5th Annual Postgraduate Symposium on the Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking, and Broadcasting (June 2004)
Takashio, K., Soeda, G., Tokuda, H.: A Mobile Agent Framework for Follow-Me Applications in Ubiquitous Computing Environment. In: Proc. of 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing System Workshop (2001)
Ledoux, T., Bouraqadi-Saadani, N.: Adaptability in Mobile Agent Systems using Reflection. In: Proc. of the Workshop on Reflective Middleware (RM 2000), New York (2000)
Mahmoud, Q.H.: Understanding Network Class Loaders, Developer Technical Articles & Tips (2004)
Mihailescu, P., Binder, W., Kendall, E.: MAE: Mobile Agent Environment for Resource Limited Devices. In: Magnusson, B. (ed.) ECOOP 2002. LNCS, vol. 2374. Springer, Heidelberg (2002)
Jung, Y., Choi, J.H., Ko, K.S., Kim, G.S., Eom, Y.I.: A Secure Group Communication Scheme for Mobile Agents using the Hierarchical Overlay Ring. The KIPS Transactions: Part A 14-A(6), KIPS (2007)
Tunal, T., Erciye, K., Soysert, Z.: A Hierarchical Fault-Tolerant Ring Protocol for Distributed Real-Time Systems. In: Proc. of the Special issue of Parallel and Dis-tributed Computing Practices on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (2000)
Saglam, O., Dalkilic, M., Erciyes, K.: Design and Implementation of a Secure Group Communication Protocol on a Fault Tolerant Ring. In: Proc. of the Computer and Information Sciences (2003)
Steiner, M., Tsudik, G., Waidner, M.: Key Agreement in Dynamic Peer Group. IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems 11(8), 769–781 (2000)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Jang, H., Ko, K.S., Jung, Yw., Eom, Y.I. (2009). Overlay Ring Based Secure Group Communication Scheme for Mobile Agents. In: Gervasi, O., Taniar, D., Murgante, B., Laganà, A., Mun, Y., Gavrilova, M.L. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2009. ICCSA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5593. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02457-3_26
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02457-3_26
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-02456-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-02457-3
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)