An Adaptive Confidentiality Security Service Enhancement Protocol Using Image-Based Key Generator for Multi-Agent Ethernet Packet Switched Networks

Abstract

Conventional network Security Protocols provide different types of security services that establish secure connections between network nodes making them robust against different security threats. The security establishment process depends on sharing security keys between connected devices. The level of security provided by such security protocols is static and irrelevant to the status of the network. In this paper, we propose an adaptive security-aware lottery-EDF scheduler for limited resources Ethernet packet switched networks using GAIA multi-agent approach. The proposed system adopts a periodic non-shared cryptographic key-generation process of different sizes (i.e., 64 bits, 128 bits, 160 bits, and 512 bits) using the textural features of digital images stored on a central image-server. The proposed system deploys a security enhancement unit that adaptively enhances the confidentiality security-service level for the real-time packets according to feedback from a congestion control scheme that is based on network resource estimation technique, hence making the network robust against the spoofing security threat while preserving the overall network performance metrics (NPMs). By simulating a real-time Ethernet packet switched network, extensive simulation results show the efficiency of the adaptive proposed protocol over the static-security and IPSec protocols in guaranteeing the QoS requirements for the real-time flows in terms of destination’s buffer consumption and average total packet delays.