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Overlay ring based secure group communication scheme for mobile agents

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2009 - International Conference, Proceedings
Pages302-313
Number of pages12
EditionPART 2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
EventInternational Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2009 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 29 Jun 20092 Jul 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 2
Volume5593 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2009
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period29/06/092/07/09

Keywords

  • Group communication
  • Group shared key
  • Mobile agents
  • Ring topology

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