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The emerging trend of using mobile agents for mobile adhoc network (MANET) applications intensifies the need for protecting them. Here we propose a distributed trust based framework to protect both the agents and the host platforms (running at the nodes). This paper develops a distributed reputation model of MANET using concepts from Dempster-Shafer theory. The agents and the host platforms work together so that each trusted node may form a consistent trust view of MANET. An agent may share its view of the network with a visited host. To speed up convergence, a node broadcasts information regarding a suspected node. Thus an inactive node, without deploying agents may also get a partial view of the network. The agents use combination of encryption and digital signature to provide privacy and authentication services. Node mobility and the effect of environmental noise are considered. The results show the robustness of our proposed scheme.
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Chowdhury, C., Neogy, S. (2011). Mobile Agent Security in MANET Using Reputation. In: Nagamalai, D., Renault, E., Dhanuskodi, M. (eds) Advances in Parallel Distributed Computing. PDCTA 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 203. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24037-9_16
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