Design, Implementation, and Testing of Mobile Agent Protection Mechanism for MANETS

Abstract: In the current research, we present an operation framework and protection mechanism to facilitate secure environment for protecting mobile agents against tampering. The system depends on the presence of an authentication authority. The advantage of the proposed scheme is that security measures is an integral part of the design, thus common security retrofitting problems do not arise. This is due to the presence of AlGamal encryption mechanism to protect its conferential content and any collected data by the agent. So that eavesdropping information from the agent is no longer possible to reveal any confidential information. Also the inherent security constraints within the framework allows the system to operate as an intrusion detection system for the mobile agent environment as well. The mechanism is tested for most of the well known severe attacks and proved a promising performance that makes it very much recommended for the types of transactions that needs highly secure transactions, e. g., business to business. Key Words: mobile agent securit