Analyzing strategies of mobile agents on malicious cloud platform with Agent-Based Computational Economic Approach

Cloud computing is a service model that enables resource-limited mobile devices to remotely execute tasks from a server. The mobile agent is a software program installed in the mobile device to negotiate a diversity of commerce transactions with other mobile agents in the cloud. However, the negotiation plans carried by mobile agents are easily be eavesdropped on by the malicious cloud platforms, since the codes of mobile agents are read and executed by the cloud platform. Thus, sellers can tailor the negotiation plans to cheat buyers for seizing buyers’ profits in negotiations after eavesdropping on buyers’ negotiation plans. In this paper, we consider the buyers can take actions to resist the sellers’ cheatings, which is that the buyers can tailor their plans with extremely low demand to decrease sellers’ profits before migrate to the hosts. In this paper, we consider actions that buyers can take to resist sellers’ cheatings, that is the buyers can tailor their plans with extremely low demands before migrate to the cloud platform. Above situations between buyers and sellers are modeled as a mathematical model called Eavesdropping and Resistance of Negotiation (ERN) Game. The strategies of the buyers and sellers playing the ERN Game are analyzed by the Agent-Based Computational Economic approach. The simulation results show the cooperative strategies will be emerged between buyers and sellers in the ERN Game.

► The behaviors of cheatings and resistances of buyers and sellers in the malicious cloud platform are modeled as a mathematical model called Eavesdropping and Resistance of Negotiation (ERN) Game.
► The strategies of buyers and sellers in the ERN Game are analyzed with Agent-Based Computational Economic Approach.
► The simulation results show the both cooperative strategies are emerged from buyers and sellers in the ERN Game.