Light-weight Authentication System and Resource Monitoring using MAS

Abstract

Application, resource and Network supervision and trust management is a significant issue due to today’s speedily development of computer and communication environment specially in Local Area Network (LAN).Client-server  based  network  management approach suffer  from  problems such  as  insufficient scalability, interoperability,  reliability,  and  flexibility,  as networks become more geographically distributed [1]. Another big issue is trust management. RSA, DES and Kerberos is another good methods to achieve authentication but require but high computation is a big deal for LAN, another issue is availability.  In this paper, we have proposed a new (novel) light weight approach for resource and trust management using the concept of Multi agent system. Proposed method used the concept of certificate authority (AS of Kerberos) for authenticating the users in LAN or peer to peer network. Availability and minimum delay are the key factor of any authentication scheme, in this paper we proposed a fresh new concept for authenticity and supervision of resources. Our Mobile agent based solution will work same as Kerberos with better throughput and with high availability due to distributed and roaming features of MAS system. Proposed method provides good solution for trust management as well as supervision for network resource and application. We have used SPADE for development of MAS.