Agent Based Secure Multicast Authentication on Wireless Network

Abstract

Conventional key based authentication system normally associated with block cipher and allows the sender to send the packets with signature scheme. The relationship between the packets makes them vulnerable to packet loss, which is inherent in the internet and wireless networks. In addition, the lack of Denial of Service (DOS) resilience renders most of them vulnerable to packet injection in the hostile environments. In this paper we propose an Agent Based Secure Multicast Authentication (ABSMA) which utilizes the public key encryption in batch signature with efficient fast hashing algorithm. Our agent based architecture used for the identification of packet loss and injection and allows the host to resend the particular packets.