SL2R-HT and SL2R-LH: Securing layer-2 routing protocol for WMN

Author

Bansal, Divya ; Sofat, Sanjeev ; Kumar, Prafulla

Author_Institution

CSE, PEC Univ. of Technol., Chandigarh, India

fYear

2011

fDate

20-23 March 2011

Firstpage

565

Lastpage

571

Abstract

Earlier research efforts mainly focused on securing adhoc routing mechanisms. However, recently there has also been growing research interest in studying the security of the medium access control (MAC) and its impact on network performance. The impact will be even more severe in case of multi hop wireless networks. IEEE 802.11s being a multihop technology also derives similar security concerns. It also hence needs to ensure correct route establishment mechanisms, protection of routing information, and security of packet forwarding. In this paper two new schemes have been proposed to protect the IEEE 802.11s (draft) routing protocol: HWMP which is currently defined as the default protocol. The proposed schemes have been implemented in a simulation environment and the results have been compared with the existing protocol.

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; routing protocols; telecommunication security; telecommunication standards; wireless sensor networks; IEEE 802.11s; SL2R-HT; SL2RLH; WMN; ad hoc routing; medium access control; multi hop wireless networks; packet forwarding security; routing information protection; securing layer-2 routing protocol; Delay; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Routing; Routing protocols; Security; HWMP; Hashing; IEEE 802.11s; Routing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers & Informatics (ISCI), 2011 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-689-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958978

Filename

5958978