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

Author

Fu, Yingfang ; He, Jingsha ; Luan, Liangyu ; Wang, Rong ; Li, Guorui

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Beijing Univ. of Technol., Beijing

fYear

2008

fDate

July 28 2008-Aug. 1 2008

Firstpage

68

Lastpage

71

Abstract

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.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; fault tolerance; mobile radio; telecommunication network management; telecommunication security; fault tolerance; malicious attacks; mobile ad hoc networks; wireless mesh networks; zone-based distributed key management scheme; Ad hoc networks; Authentication; Educational institutions; Educational technology; Fault tolerance; Identity management systems; Information security; Public key; Usability; Wireless mesh networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications, 2008. COMPSAC '08. 32nd Annual IEEE International

Conference_Location

Turku

ISSN

0730-3157

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3262-2

Electronic_ISBN

0730-3157

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMPSAC.2008.131

Filename

4591535