A Security Response Approach based on the Deployment of Mobile Agents

Roberto Magán-Carrión; José Camacho; Pedro García-Teodoro

Abstract:

This paper introduces a response mechanism to improve the tolerance against security threats in MANET environments. The mechanism is started after detecting the existence of nodes with malicious behavior, and is based on the use of one or more mobile agents to improve the connectivity of the network. This way, in the event of the detection of a malicious node (e.g. a selfish node or a dropper node), an agent is employed to maximize the overall connectivity of the network. Every agent acts as a relaying node within the MANET and it is automatically positioned according to a particle swarm optimization (PSO) process. This paper represents a work in progress. However, the promising results obtained show the good suitability of the approach to improve the survivability of the network from a security perspective.

Research areas:

• Intrusion detection and protection
• Data processing and networkmetrics

Year:

2013

Type of Publication:

In Proceedings

Keywords:

Agent; PSO; detection; malicious; MAN; response; survivability; tolerance

Volume:

7879

Book title:

11th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 2013)

Series:

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Pages:

182-191

Month:

Mayo

ISBN:

978-3-642-38072-3

ISSN:

0302-9743

DOI:

10.1007/978-3-642-38073-0_16