SLAB: A secure localized authentication and billing scheme for wireless mesh networks

Author

Zhu, Haojin ; Lin, Xiaodong ; Lu, Rongxing ; Ho, Pin-Han ; Xuemin Shen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

Volume

7

Issue

10

fYear

2008

fDate

10/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

3858

Lastpage

3868

Abstract

The future metropolitan-area wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are expected to contain compromise-prone mesh access points (MAPs) with a high frequency of inter-domain roaming/handoff events. This paper introduces a novel secure localized authentication and billing (SLAB) scheme, which aims to address both security guarantee and performance in terms of system compromise resilience capability, interdomain handoff authentication latency, and workload of the roaming broker (RB). With extensive analysis and simulation, we demonstrate that the proposed scheme can be a practical solution for achieving secure roaming and billing in metropolitan-area WMNs.

Keywords

metropolitan area networks; radio networks; telecommunication security; compromise-prone mesh access points; interdomain handoff authentication latency; metropolitan-area WMN; roaming broker; secure localized authentication and billing scheme; wireless mesh networks; Authentication; Authorization; Communication system security; Electronic switching systems; Mesh networks; Public key; Roaming; Web and internet services; Wireless mesh networks; Wireless mesh networks, security, inter-domain handoff, authentication and billing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1276

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/T-WC.2008.07418

Filename

4657331