• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.993-996
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• 1999

A mobile agent is a program which is capable of migrating autonomously from host to host in the heterogeneous network, to perform some computation on behalf of the user. Mobile agents have many advantages in the distributed computing environment. But they are likely to suffer many attacks on the security due to the mobility. In order to make use of a mobile agent in the real applications, the security issues must be addressed. We deal with the problem which is concerned with protecting a mobile agent in transit and detecting a mobile agent clone. In this paper we propose a trust center based secure mobile agent transfer protocol. This protocol transfers a mobile agent securely from host to host and detects a mobile agent clone. We further show the security of the protocol against many attacks.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.12-22
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• 2002

A Mobile IP allows IP hosts to move between different networks without changing their IP addresses. Mobile IP systems supporting local registration were introduced to reduce the number of times a home registration with the remotely located home agent was needed. The local registration Mobile IP scheme enhanced performance by processing registration requests of mobile nodes at a local agent. The local registration approach may affect other aspects of the Mobile IP systems such as fault tolerance. In this paper, we briefly review previous solutions for supporting fault tolerance in local registration Mobile IP systems and propose a fault tolerance protocol with a backup foreign agent in a hierarchical local registration mobile IP to enhance the efficiency of such systems against foreign agent failures. We also describe the specification of the proposed protocol using LOTOS and perform its validation using MiniLite. Finally, we analyze the performance of our proposed fault tolerance protocol through simulation.

• 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.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.246-252
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• 2005

Intelligent Space is a space where many sensors and intelligent devices are distributed. Mobile robots exist in this space as physical agents, which provide human with services. To realize this, human and mobile robots have to approach each other as much as possible. Moreover, it is necessary for them to perform interactions naturally. It is desirable for a mobile robot to carry out human affinitive movement. In this research, a mobile robot is controlled by the Intelligent Space through its resources. The mobile robot is controlled to follow walking human as stably and precisely as possible. In order to follow a human, control law is derived from the assumption that a human and a mobile robot are connected with a virtual spring model. Input velocity to a mobile robot is generated on the basis of the elastic force from the virtual spring in this model. And its performance is verified by the computer simulation and the experiment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2003.09a
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• pp.268-271
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a new framework based on negotiatory mobile multi agent system, and implement a mobile multi agent environment based on DECAF(Distributed Environment-Centered Agent Framework) which is one of the distributed agent development toolkit so as to implement a new PDS(Personal Digital Library System). The new framework has some optimality and higher performance in distributed environments.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.11D no.2
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• pp.351-360
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• 2004

Most mobile agents are migrated to many mobile agent systems by the sequential node migration method. However. in this case, if some problems such as host's fault or obstacle etc. happened, mobile agent falls infinity walt or orphan states. Therefore, it is difficult to get an expectation effect as use of other distribution technologies because the required time for networking between nodes increases. And so, many researches have been performed to solve this problems. However, most of methods decide node migration based on passive routing table or detour hosts which have some problems. Actually, the researches for reducing the total required time for networking are insufficient yet. In this paper, to reduce the required time for networking of mobile agent we design an active routing table based on the information of implemented objects which are registered in the meta-table of naming agent. And also, for user's keyword, we propose an replication model that replicates many agent object according to the information and number of object references corresponding to meta-table. Replicated objects are migrated to mobile agent systems in parallel and it provides minimized required time for networking.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.840-845
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• 2005

Intelligent agents to learn users' tendency have learn uscrs' tendency by sufficient users information and training time. When the intelligent agents is used in ubiquitous environment, users must wait for intelligent agents to learn, so user may be can't get proper services. In this paper we proposed an intelligent P2P mobile agent system that can learn users' tendency in real-time by sharing users' resource. The system shared users contexts on four places and made feel groups which was composed of similar users. When users' service which had the highest correlation coefficient in the peer groups was suggested, users were satisfied over $80\%$.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.10C no.5
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• pp.525-532
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• 2003

This paper describes intrusion detection rule management using mobile agents. Intrusion detection can be divided into anomaly detection and misuse detection. Misuse detection is best suited for reliably detecting known use patterns. Misuse detection systems can detect many or all known attack patterns, but they are of little use for as yet unknown attack methods. Therefore, the introduction of mobile agents to provide computational security by constantly moving around the Internet and propagating rules is presented as a solution to misuse detection. This work presents a new approach for detecting intrusions, in which mobile agent mechanisms are used for security rules propagation. To evaluate the proposed approach, we compared the workload data between a rules propagation method using a mobile agent and a conventional method. Also, we simulated a rules management using NS-2 (Network Simulator) with respect to time.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.5 no.8
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• pp.781-790
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• 2004

This paper describes intrusion detection rule mangement using mobile agents. Intrusion detection can be divided into anomaly detection and misuse detection. Misuse detection is best suited for reliably detecting known use patterns. Misuse detection systems can detect many or all known attack patterns, but they are of little use for as yet unknown attack methods. Therefore, the introduction of mobile agents to provide computational security by constantly moving around the Internet and propagating rules is presented as a solution to misuse detection. This work presents a new approach for detecting intrusions, in which mobile agent mechanisms are used for security rules propagation. To evaluate the proposed appraoch, we compared the workload data between a rules propagation method using a mobile agent and a conventional method. Also, we simulated a rules management using NS-2(Network Simulator) with respect to time.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.371-378
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• 2002

In the resent years, the term mobile agent is probably one of the most overused words in many appliable areas of distributed open systems as electronic commerce and electronic data interchange, and it has very different meanings in the area of artificial intelligence, network management, or distributed systems. However, the use of mobile agent adds significant problems, primarily in the area of EC/EDI. Therefore it is very important to control the roaming agents to keep one's privacy or property in distributed open networks. The surge in secure intranets for commercial applications provides a robust, secure environment to which trading partners can increasingly entrust their interactions to some mobile agents. In this paper, we introduce a mechanism to protect mobile agent itself from the malicious server he is visiting and also we introduce a mechanism to protect vital resources of the open systems as internet.