Secure Autonomous Mobile Agents for Web Services

摘要

Autonomous Mobile agents can be extremely useful in dynamic environments that require a continuous network connection. Network bandwidth reduction, protocol encapsulation, software automation and intelligence gathering can significantly affect Web Services. Integrating mobile agents with Web Services enables software adaptation to cope with a dynamic environment, automated system configuration and application requirement changes that are frequent in today''s ever fast-evolving technology. In this paper, we use a lightweight and efficient composition for mobile agents based Web services complying with Representational State Transfer (REST) principles for agent creation, migration, and control. The paper presents the overall concept and architecture of RESTful agents for web services. A security scheme is proposed for mobile agent security based on an infrastructure-less Identity Based Encryption (IBE) scheme integrated with Broadcast based Secure Mobile Agent Protocol (BROSMAP). A proof- of-concept implementation is provided.