Secure Tactical Mobile Intelligent Agents

摘要

Research on protocols in ad hoc networks secret sharing to support distributed computation. and mechanisms to enhance data encapsulation for mobile computations has continued since our Interim Progress Report. Several papers were published or submitted for publication relating to the research conducted in relation to this project. An important discovery relating to the family of algorithms that can guarantee node and link disjoint paths in ad hoc networks of reasonable size and density. A message delivery mechanism that resists broadcast storm while retaining the positive reliability properties of flooding was also developed. Work in progress Willard Thompson has devised a framework and corresponding mechanism for protecting privacy of computations by mobile agents called 'Semantic Encryption Transformation Scheme'. Additional work by non-ARO funded students Todd MacDonald, a self-funded Ph.D. student of Pl Yasinsac is also working in this area and has amassed a large volume of work in homomorphic encryption and protocol verification for mobile agent schemes. Khandy Polite is a DoD ASP student that conducted research in an area closely related to mobile agent security. Her thesis is entitled: 'Privacy Preserving Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks' was completed in April 2004. Another DoD lASP student Anna Suen, completed a Mobile Agent security related thesis entitled: 'Mobile Agent Protection with Data Encapsulation and Execution Tracing' in April 2003.