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In the world of mobile agents, security aspects are extensively being discussed. In this context, denial of service attacks are of considerable interest. Here, we consider a special kind of denial of service attacks which focuses on malicious hosts that either delete received agents or prevent them from continuing their route. In general, the prevention of such attacks is not possible. This paper discusses a detection method for a posteriori identification of such malicious hosts. The output of this identification method can be used by agent owners to avoid contacting these hosts again in the future. Moreover, hosts originally intended to be visited cannot be skipped as a result of one malicious host’s misbehavior. We provide solutions to this problem for both the cases of completely dependent and completely independent agent computations.
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Cubaleska, B., Schneider, M. (2002). A Method for Protecting Mobile Agents against Denial of Service Attacks. In: Klusch, M., Ossowski, S., Shehory, O. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents VI. CIA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2446. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45741-0_26
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