A Zone-Based Distributed Key Management Scheme for Wireless Mesh Networks

A wireless mesh network (WMN) presents a new wireless network technology for building commercial mobile ad hoc networks. However, security in WMN has not received enough attention in the research community. One main challenge in designing WMNs is the vulnerability of such networks to malicious attacks. In this paper, we propose a zone-based distributed key management scheme for WMNs in which we show that the proposed scheme would improve key management in security, expandability, validity, fault tolerance and usability.