This work introduces an autonomous and secure communication framework for IoT environments driven by AI agents. While IoT is grabbing strong roots in our lives with more and more smart devices being used around us, the security of data collected and the devices as well remains a critical concern. Without robust security measures, these devices can be compromised and are vulnerable for DDOS attacks without the owner’s knowledge. While, AI agents have already proved their potential in web-based applications but the potential of these autonomous entities remains untapped in an IoT based environment. especially, for providing security in resource constrained devices.
This work proposed an intelligent agent-based proactive defense framework for secure communication in IoT. Agent technology is well established and widely deployed in internet-based applications, thus it can surely be deployed in IoT scenario. Further, agents may be developed on Java based open-source platform such as JADE which make them suitable for constrained device. This work uniquely contributes by ensuring agent communication through contract net trust establishment protocol which ensures trustworthy and reliable communication among agents in a multi agent system. The security of HMA while migrating on a public network is worth addressing in future.
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How to Cite This Paper
Aarti Singh (2026). A Proactive Défense Mechanism for IoT using AI Agents. International Journal of Computer Techniques, 13(2). ISSN: 2394-2231.
