چکیده (انگلیسی):

Applications of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) have become extensively popular over the years
among the researchers. However, the dynamic nature of MANETs imposes a set of challenges to its
efficient implementation in practice. One of such challenges represents intrusion detection and
prevention procedures that are intended to provide secured performance of ad hoc applications. In this
study, we introduce a mobile agent based intrusion detection and prevention architecture for a
clustered MANET. Here, a mobile agent resides in each cluster of the ad hoc network and each cluster
runs a specific application at any point of time. This application specific approach makes the network
more robust to external intrusions directed at the nodes in an ad hoc network.