Secure and Privacy-Preserving Authentication Protocols for Wireless Mesh Networks
Jaydip Sen

TL;DR
This paper reviews existing security protocols for wireless mesh networks, highlighting vulnerabilities, and introduces a new authentication protocol and privacy scheme to enhance security and user anonymity.
Contribution
It proposes a novel security protocol for node authentication, message confidentiality, and user privacy protection tailored for WMNs.
Findings
The new protocol improves resistance to external and internal attacks.
Enhanced privacy protection through anonymization scheme.
Better security and privacy features compared to existing schemes.
Abstract
Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have emerged as a promising concept to meet the challenges in next-generation wireless networks such as providing flexible, adaptive, and reconfigurable architecture while offering cost-effective solutions to service providers. As WMNs become an increasingly popular replacement technology for last-mile connectivity to the home networking, community and neighborhood networking, it is imperative to design efficient and secure communication protocols for these networks. However, several vulnerabilities exist in currently existing protocols for WMNs. These security loopholes can be exploited by potential attackers to launch attack on WMNs. The absence of a central point of administration makes securing WMNs even more challenging. The broadcast nature of transmission and the dependency on the intermediate nodes for multi-hop communications lead to several…
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Taxonomy
TopicsMobile Ad Hoc Networks · Advanced Authentication Protocols Security · Cooperative Communication and Network Coding
