A Middleware Framework for Secure Mobile Grid Services

This paper proposes a middleware framework that supports Mobile Grid Services in a secure manner. Mobile Grid Services, the extension of the original static Grid services, are characterized by the ability of moving from nodes to nodes during execution. The framework is constructed by combining an existing mobile agent system (JADE) and a generic grid system toolkit (Globus). The Mobile Grid Services are realized as Globus grid services with JADE mobile agent support.