Design of a distributed intrusion detection system based on independent agents

The common problems of current intrusion detection systems are analyzed in this paper. Based on these, a distributed IDS framework model based on independent agents is proposed. This paper describes the function of entities, and defines the communication mechanism. The proposed model is an open system, which has good scalability. Agents are independent individually, while they can communicate and cooperate one another to take actions. In the end, directions for future work are discussed.