Protection Based on Neighborhood-Trust in Clustered Wireless Mesh Networks

Author

Samad, Fahad ; Makram, Sadeq Ali

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., RWTH Aachen Univ., Aachen, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

15-18 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

487

Lastpage

493

Abstract

Wireless mesh network (WMWMNN) is unquestionably an interesting technology addition in wireless communication networks because of its self-organizing, self-healing and reliability dimensions. However, possible misuse or hijacking of these networks by adversaries make them highly vulnerable. In this paper, we provide a protection mechanism based on neighborhood trust to gain required security and identification privacy in a clustered WMN. Our approach renders a lightweight protection against security vulnerabilities using hash chains and does not require any trusted authority.

Keywords

cryptography; data privacy; radio networks; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication network topology; telecommunication security; MNN security vulnerability; clustered wireless mesh network; hash chain; identification privacy; neighborhood trust-based protection mechanism; network hijacking; network misuse; self-organizing self-healing wireless communication network reliability; trusted authority; Authentication; Communication system security; Information security; Mesh networks; Network topology; Next generation networking; Privacy; Protection; Telecommunication network reliability; Wireless mesh networks; clustering; hash chains; neighborhood trust; security and privacy; wireless mesh networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, 2009. NGMAST '09. Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cardiff, Wales

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3786-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NGMAST.2009.26

Filename

5337372