TY - GEN
T1 - Domain-based mobile agent fault-tolerance scheme for home network environments
AU - Kim, Gu Su
AU - Eom, Young Ik
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Mobile agent technology is very useful in home network environments and ubiquitous environments. For several reasons, a particular mobile agent may fail to operate during its movement between various platforms. For mobile agent recovery, a checkpoint can be used. However, devices in home network environments generally have minimal or no secondary storage. Therefore, a checkpoint cannot be saved on the device within a home network. In this paper, a scheme that safely recovers a mobile agent using a checkpoint saved within the home gateway is presented. When the mobile agent enters the single home network environment, it registers its recovery policy and saves its checkpoint on the home gateway. At the checkpoint saving instance, a symmetric key generated by the home gateway encrypts the checkpoint, this symmetric key is also encrypted and stored together with the checkpoint. When the mobile agent is abnormally terminated or the device suddenly turns off from battery exhaustion or failure, the home gateway recognizes the exception in the mobile agent or device, recovering the mobile agent with the checkpoint according to the previously registered recovery policy.
AB - Mobile agent technology is very useful in home network environments and ubiquitous environments. For several reasons, a particular mobile agent may fail to operate during its movement between various platforms. For mobile agent recovery, a checkpoint can be used. However, devices in home network environments generally have minimal or no secondary storage. Therefore, a checkpoint cannot be saved on the device within a home network. In this paper, a scheme that safely recovers a mobile agent using a checkpoint saved within the home gateway is presented. When the mobile agent enters the single home network environment, it registers its recovery policy and saves its checkpoint on the home gateway. At the checkpoint saving instance, a symmetric key generated by the home gateway encrypts the checkpoint, this symmetric key is also encrypted and stored together with the checkpoint. When the mobile agent is abnormally terminated or the device suddenly turns off from battery exhaustion or failure, the home gateway recognizes the exception in the mobile agent or device, recovering the mobile agent with the checkpoint according to the previously registered recovery policy.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/33745618689
U2 - 10.1007/11689522_25
DO - 10.1007/11689522_25
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33745618689
SN - 3540330526
SN - 9783540330523
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 269
EP - 277
BT - Information Security Practice and Experience - Second International Conference, ISPEC 2006, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, ISPEC 2006
Y2 - 11 April 2006 through 14 April 2006
ER -