• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.3 no.8
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• pp.1049-1062
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• 2002

As the distributed resources in the networks have become increasingly popular, the accesses to these resources having been activated. Especially, the accesses to the distributed resources using the mobile agent technologies provide the mechanisms supporting mobility with mobile users as well as the dynamic accesses to the resources in the fixed networks. Proxy-based mobile agent model is defined as mobile agent network model which allocates the hierarchical domains to the distributed resources changed dynamically, assigns one proxy server for each domain, and promotes the management and the cooperation of the mobile agents. In this paper, we introduce the architecture and the execution scenario for proxy-based mobile agent model which is suitable for the hierarchical management domains. In simulation, we evaluate the proxy server's route optimization functionality and the performance reducing execution time of the mobile agents.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.5S
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• pp.1657-1665
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• 2000

Mobile agents based e-commerce system has many advantage than traditional e-commerce-information gathering on goods, price settlement and payment, delivery of the goods purchased, and so on. However, due to the security vulnerability that stems from mobile agent's mobility, mobile agents based e-commerce system has additional security problems. Therefore, in order to do e-commerce securely in th system, first of al the security issues on mobile agents must be addressed. It this paper, we propose a mobile agent transfer protocol that provides confidentiality and integrity of mobile agent in transit and mutual authentication for communicating hosts. We further show the security of the protocol against many possible attacks. Also, we suggest the location management mechanism of mobile agents based on the trust center. This mechanism is capable of finding their locations transparently and detecting mobile agent clones.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.11A no.6
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• pp.439-450
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• 2004

Mobile agents are autonomous and dynamic entities that can migrate among various nodes in the network. Java's Jini framework facilitates mobile agent system development, providing hey features for distributed network programming. However, due to the security weakness, Jinil.0 service has a fundamental limitation on developing mobile agent systems which support secure remote communications. In this paper, we describe a Jini2.0-based secure mobile agent system named SecureJMoblet. On the top of Jini2.0, the system provides basic functionalities of a mobile agent system such as creation, transfer and control. In addition, with the SeureJS developed for secure JavaSpace service, SecureJMoblet supports a secure object repository and a reliable communication among mobile agents.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.240-249
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• 2002

In the course of Internet proliferation, many network-related technologies are examined for possible growth and evolution. The use of Internet-based technologies in private networks has further fuelled the demand for network-based applications. The most promising among the new paradigms is use of mobile agents. The mobile agent is capable of migrating autonomously from node to node in the network, to perform some computation on behalf of the user. The mobile agent paradigm is attractive alternative to traditional client-server programming for a significant class of network-centric applications. It also however, suffers from a major drawback, namely, the potential for malicious attacks, abuse of resources pilfering of information, and other security issues. These issues are significantly hampering the acceptance of the mobile-agent paradigm. This paper describe the design & implementation of secure mobile agent gateway that split and merge the agent cede with security policy database. This mechanism will promote the security in mobile agent systems and mobile agent itself.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.3-12
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• 2001

In this course of Internet proliferation, many network-related technologies are examined for possible growth and evolution. The use of Internet-based technologies is private networks has further fuelled the demand for network-based applications. The most promising among the new paradigms is the use of mobile agents. The mobile agent is capable of migrating autonomously form node to node in the network, to perform some computations on behalf of the user. The mobile agent paradigm is attractive alternative to traditional client-server programming for a significant class of network-centric applications. It does however, suffer. from a major drawback namely, the potential for malicious attacks, abuse of resources, pilfering of information, and other security issues. These issues are significantly hampering the acceptance of the mobile-agent paradigm. This paper describes the design of a secure mobile agent gateway 7hat can split and merge the agent code with security policy database on the VPN. This mechanism will promote security in the mobile agent systems.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.91-98
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• 2020

The mobile agent, which handles a given task while migrating between the sensor nodes, moves including the execution commands and task processing results. This increases the size of the mobile agent, causing the network to load, leading to the migration time delay and the loss of migration reliability. This paper presents the method of lightening the mobile agent using distributed object technology and the algorithm for exploring and providing the optimal migration path that is actively performed in the event of network traffic, and it proposes a method to ensure the reliability of the mobile agent migration by applying them. In addition, through the comparative analysis experiments based on agent size and network traffic for the migration time of mobile agent equipped with active rules in sensor network-based mobile agent middleware environment, applying the proposed methods proves to ensure the autonomy and migration reliability of the mobile agent.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.10-12
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• 2001

우리들은 현재 엄청난 양과 질의 정보세상에서 생활하고 있다. 때문에 이들 정보들을 보다 효과적으로 활용하고자 하는 것은 당연한 욕심이다. 그 중 대표적인 예로 RPC(Remote Procedure Call)가 있다. 그리고 mobile code를 이용해 새로운 패러다임을 선보이는 Mobile Agent가 있다. 현재 여러 mobile agent 시스템이 Java RMI(Remote Method Call)를 활용하고 있다. 이전의 RPC는 하나의 완전한 객체가 아닌 일반 data만을 네트웍을 통해서 전송할 수 있었으나, Java RMI를 적극 활용하는 mobile agent는 자신이 하나의 객체로 구현되어 네트웍을 통해 목적지 서버로 혹은 다른 호스트로 이동한 후 원격지에서 직접적으로 자기 내부의 메소드를 실행할 수 있다[1,2,3,4]. 이는 사용자의 간섭을 배제한 agent의 자율적이고 독립된 행동을 지원하기 때문에 분산처리분야에서 새로운 패러다임을 제시하고 있다. 그리고 agent가 적합한 서비스를 제공하는 서버를 효율적이고 정확하게 찾는 것이 무엇보다 중요하다. middle agent가 바로 이런 기능을 가진 모듈이다. 본 논문에서는 효율적인 모빌 에이전트 시스템을 구축하기 위해 서버와 클라이언트와의 상호 연결을 담당하는 새로운 middle agent로서 MiddleMan을 제안하였으며 이것을 이용한 다중 사용방법에 대해서 연구하였다[5].

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.42 no.2 s.332
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• pp.1-8
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• 2005

We have implemented a Jini-Agent system which enables resource-limited mobile devices to utilize the Jini connection service. The Jini-Agent system supports Jini connection technologies to mobile devices without additional client program installation in it. It also supports a dynamic service list which helps the mobile devices to search and to utilize the services through web browser in real time. A couple of examples such as a file search service and a print service with mobile devices have been demonstrated by using the Jini-Agent system.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.175-183
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• 2009

With the development of enabling technologies such as wireless networking and various types of hand held-mobile devices, Mobile intelligent agent has been widely applied to various fields. Different views on capabilities, advantages, and disadvantages of mobile intelligent agent providing an ubiquitous access are brought by field researchers and practitioners recently. The purpose of this paper is thus to provide the discussion of the comtemporary development of mobile intelligent agent in the contexts of the Infosphere, focusing especially on developing and nurturing the future research grounds such as information scalability, and information security. The results of this study would improve the applications of mobile intelligent agents in web transaction, especially mobile business surroundings where many interest groups have to adjust their point of issues rapidly due to the changing business environment, i.e., customer's change the order item in web.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.183-188
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• 2004

In the course of Internet proliferation. many network-related technologies are examined for possible growth and evolution. The use of Internet-based technologies in private networks has further fuelled the demand for network-based applications. The most Promising among the new paradigms is use of mobile agents. It also however, suffers from a major drawback, namely the potential for malicious attacks, abuse of resources pilfering of information, and other security issues. These issues are significantly hampering the acceptance of the mobile-agent paradigm. This paper proposed the design of strong and safe mobile agent gateway that split and merge the agent code with security policy database. This mechanism will promote the security in mobile agent systems and mobile agent itself.