Title :
Preserving Identity Privacy in Wireless Mesh Networks
Author :
Islam, Shariful ; Hamid, Abdul ; Hong, Choong Seon ; Chang, Beom-Hwan
Author_Institution :
Kyung Hee Univ., Beijing
Abstract :
Wireless mesh network (WMN) has emerged as a key technology for a numerous number of applications because of its ease of deployment, low cost and flexibility of use. WMN infrastructure is a multihop network where mostly the nodes are static in nature. Preserving identity privacy is an important issue in this type of multihop WMN which has been given a little attention in the research community. Compromising privacy may lead an attacker to reveal user´s identity, his profiles and gain information about mobility. In this paper, we present an anonymous authentication scheme between mesh client and mesh router for preserving identity privacy and security in data communication in WMN. We have also shown the security and performance analysis of the proposed scheme.
Keywords :
data privacy; message authentication; mobile communication; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication security; wireless sensor networks; anonymous authentication; data communication security; identity privacy; mesh client; mesh router; mobility; multihop network; user identity; wireless mesh network; Authentication; Communication system security; Costs; Data security; Information security; Mesh networks; Privacy; Spread spectrum communication; Telecommunication traffic; Wireless mesh networks;
Conference_Titel :
Information Networking, 2008. ICOIN 2008. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Busan
Print_ISBN :
978-89-960761-1-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1976-7684
DOI :
10.1109/ICOIN.2008.4472767