Securing Wireless Mesh Network with MSA-Based Proactive Defense Mechanism

Author

Zhai, Qiang ; Ying, Jun ; Li, Junyan ; Yi, Ping ; Liu, Ning

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Security Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2010

fDate

23-25 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

To tackle the drawback of Mesh Security Associations (MSA) launched by IEEE802.11s Working Group, this paper presents and elaborates an improvement, namely Proactive Security Protection Mechanism (PSPM), which simplifies key distribution through self-organized key management, while also ensuring routing security and channel security. Its effectiveness and efficiency are later explained and demonstrated in this paper. NS2 simulation results have shown that PSPM is secure, cost efficient and widely applicable.

Keywords

telecommunication network routing; telecommunication security; wireless mesh networks; IEEE802.11s; MSA-based proactive defense mechanism; PSPM; channel security; mesh security associations; proactive security protection mechanism; routing security; self-organized key management; wireless mesh network; Delay; Digital signatures; Elliptic curve cryptography; Encryption; Routing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2010 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3708-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3709-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICOM.2010.5601213

Filename

5601213