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Security of Mobile Agents in Distributed Java Agent Development Framework (JADE) Platforms

Authors:
Timo Bayer
Christoph Reich

Keywords: security; mobile agent security; agent migration; agent confidentiality; agent trust

Abstract:
Mobile Software Agent has become increasingly interesting as a basic software technology in the field of Internet of Things, like Smart Cities, Smart Home, Industry 4.0, etc. since it offers dynamic adaption, autonomous actions, flexible maintenance, parallel processing, and is tolerant to network faults. In particular, it is very challenging to guarantee security because of characteristic features such as mobility and autonomy. This paper addresses specific security requirements for mobile software agents and possible threats for agent system operations in the context of Java Agent Development Framework (JADE) platform. The main objective of the paper is to show existing vulnerabilities and security gaps by analyzing the security of agent platform JADE, showing existing improvements of the confidentiality of software agents merging from one agent platform to another and introducing trusted agents and their implementation in JADE.

Pages: 42 to 47

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: April 23, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4243

ISBN: 978-1-61208-547-0

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 23, 2017 to April 27, 2017