International Journal of Wireless and Microwave Technologies (IJWMT)
IJWMT Vol. 13, No. 5, 8 Oct. 2023
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An Enhanced Method Utilizing Hopfield Neural Model for Mobile Agent Protection
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Author(s)
Pradeep Kumar
1,2,*
Niraj Singhal
3
Ajay Kumar
4
Kakoli Banerjee
2
Index Terms
Hopfield Neural Network (HNN), Mobile Agent Security, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Secret-key, Encryption, Decryption
Abstract
Mobile agent is a piece of computer code that organically goes from one host to the another in a consistent or inconsistent environment to distribute data among users. An autonomous mobile agent is an operational programme that may migrate from one computer to machine in different networks under its own direction. Numerous health care procedures use the mobile agent concept. An agent can choose to either follow a predetermined course on the network or determine its own path using information gathered from the network. Security concerns are the main issue with mobile agents. Agent servers that provide the agents with a setting for prosecution are vulnerable to attack by cunning agents. In the same way agent could be carrying sensitive information like credit card details, national level security message, passwords and attackers can access these files by acting as a middle man. In this paper, optimized approach is provided to encrypt the data carried by mobile agent with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm and secure key to be utilized by the AES Encryption algorithm is generated with the help of Hopfield Neural Network (HNN). To validate our approach, the comparison is done and found that the time taken to generate the key using HNN is 1101ms for 1000 iterations which is lesser than the existing models that are Recurrent Neural Networks and Multilayer Perceptron Network models. To add an additional level of security, data is encoded using hash maps which make the data not easily readable even after decrypting the information. In this way it is ensured that, when the confidential data is transmitted between the sender and the receiver, no one can regenerate the message as there is no exchange of key involved in the process.
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Pradeep Kumar, Niraj Singhal, Ajay Kumar, Kakoli Banerjee, "An Enhanced Method Utilizing Hopfield Neural Model for Mobile Agent Protection", International Journal of Wireless and Microwave Technologies(IJWMT), Vol.13, No.5, pp. 23-33, 2023. DOI:10.5815/ijwmt.2023.05.03
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