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Secure Multi-agent Coordination in a Network Monitoring System

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Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS 2002)

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We have developed a mobile-agent based network monitoring system. In this system, multiple agents coordinate with each other to collectively perform network monitoring. This paper deals with the coordination of multiple agents to achieve monitoring functions and failed component recovery. We also address the security needs of our monitoring system, i.e. types of attacks that could be launched on the system, and our solutions to thwart them. Finally, we present our experiences with the system and the resource overhead imposed by it.

This work was supported by National Science Foundation grants ANI 0087514 and EIA 9818338.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

    Anand R. Tripathi, Muralidhar Koka, Sandeep Karanth, Abhijit Pathak & Tanvir Ahmed

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  1. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro - PUC-Rio, Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 225, Ed. Pe. Leonel Franca, 22453-900, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Tripathi, A.R., Koka, M., Karanth, S., Pathak, A., Ahmed, T. (2003). Secure Multi-agent Coordination in a Network Monitoring System. In: Garcia, A., Lucena, C., Zambonelli, F., Omicini, A., Castro, J. (eds) Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems. SELMAS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2603. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-35828-5_16

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