Mobile Agent Based Authentication for Wireless Network Security

The explosive growth witnessed by wireless networks is largely due to the flexibility offered to both users and service provider. However, the open wireless medium makes traditional link-layer attacks readily available to anyone within the range of the network. Confidentiality, integrity and authentication pose several challenges to wireless network security implementations. The IEEE 802.11i security framework has some flaws, making the traditional cryptographic mechanism provide weak security for the wireless environment. In this paper we explore the feasibility of mobile agents to provide secured access control for next generation wireless infrastructure networks.