Communication Security on MASs - A Literature Review

Abstract:

With widely applications of Multi-Agent System in internet and intranet, how to ensure security related to multi-agent is a big issue. This paper mainly focuses on communication security of MASs. Through investigation, there are five typical security models relating to MASs, and all these models communicate using XML data format. With traditional cryptographic technology, these models provide a coarse granularity security. The paper proposes XML Security Specifications which based on XML should be deployed within MASs communication.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 496-500)
• Pages: 1849-1852
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.496-500.1849
• Online since: January 2014
• Authors: Hua Chen*, Bo Sun, Nian Liu
• Keywords: Authentication, Confidentiality, Integrity, MAS, XML Security Specification

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