An improved itinerary recording protocol for securing distributed architectures based on mobile agents

Mobile Information Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 129-147

  Allée, Guillaume ^a   Pierre, Samuel ^a   Glitho, Roch H ^b   Rhazi, Abdelmorhit El ^a  

^a Mobile Computing and Networking Research Laboratory LARIM   (Canada)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cooperating agents; Distributed architecture; Electronic commerce; Itinerary recording; Mobile agent; Security protocol

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013566936     PISSN: 1574017X     EISSN: 1875905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2005/346185     Document Type: Article

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