MABFWA: Mobile Agent Based Framework for Wireless Authentication

Authentication is the most important aspect of security in the wireless communication. Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) provides the framework for wireless authentication over which various other protocols like EAP TLS, EAP TTLS, EAP MD5 etc. can be executed. These all protocols run on client server mechanism. These mechanisms can have some problems in highly distributed systems. So a new mechanism which can support all these protocols in a distributed environment is needed. This paper provides the introduction about authentication, literature about authentication, problems associated with the current approaches and proposed new mobile agent based framework for wireless authentication over which protocols like MD5, TLS etc. can be executed.