A hierarchical access control scheme based on Lagrange interpolation for mobile agents. (July 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hsiao, Tsung-Chih; Wu, Zhen-Yu; Chen, Tzer-Long; Chung, Yu-Fang; Chen, Tzer-Shyong
• Is Part Of: International journal of distributed sensor networks. Volume 14:Number 7(2018)
• Publication Date: 2018-07
• Subjects: Mobile agent -- Lagrange interpolation -- access control -- key management -- heterogeneous systems; Sensor networks -- Periodicals; Intelligent agents (Computer software) -- Periodicals; Multisensor data fusion -- Periodicals; 681.2
• DOI: 10.1177/1550147718790892
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1550-1329

Abstract

The mobile agent is functioning as an information exchanger with hosts. In order to reduce the communication time that the host sent to the members of a large system. This article proposes to use a function defined by Lagrange polynomial to compute decryption key. Each host will be given a decryption key to access the confidential document by inputting a secret key into an interpolation function which is generated from Lagrange interpolation. Since tasks are done by the mobile agent, the whole process will be performed within a short time period because there is no physical connection between the end devices. The information exchange occurs at the end hosts.