Mobile agents and telcos' nightmares

Annales des Telecommunications/Annals of Telecommunications

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 388-400

  Karjoth, Günter ^a   Posegga, Joachim ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOBILE AGENTS;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 0034225108     PISSN: 00034347     EISSN: 19589395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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