Detection of Mobile Agent's Blocking in Secure Layered Architecture

with the exponential growth of distributed applications and widespread popularity of Internet poses many challenges for researchers that motivate the organizations to deploy the mobile agent technology with considering the security issue pertains to mobile agent and agent platform. Malicious host problem is one of the biggest challenging issues in the arena of agent technology. Current proposal aims to layered security model for the protection of agent's code, data and secrets which are worth mentioning in a single approach along with maintaining autonomy features of mobile agents. The proposed defense in depth approach is viable under the assumption of established PKI (Public Key infrastructure) with fixed ordered itinerary list of nodes. In addition, we devise an algorithm for detecting the culprit of blocking attack to rescue the offers (data) collected during the agent's itinerary.