TY - GEN
T1 - A secure key management scheme in wireless mesh networks
AU - Kandah, Farah
AU - Zhang, Weiyi
AU - Du, Xiaojiang
AU - Singh, Yashaswi
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Wireless mesh network (WMN) is a rapid deployed, self organized and multi-hop wireless network. The wireless and distributed natures of WMNs make them subject to various kinds of attacks, which raise a great challenge in securing these networks. Most existing security mechanisms are based on cryptographic keys where a high degree key management services are in demand. In this paper, we present an effective key management scheme which seeks an encryption key assignment such that the induced network is connected and well protected against potential eavesdropping attacks. Compared with previous work, our scheme assigns the available encryption keys among all the nodes in the network. The simulation results show that our scheme out performs previous schemes through providing a network that is resistant against malicious eavesdropping attack.
AB - Wireless mesh network (WMN) is a rapid deployed, self organized and multi-hop wireless network. The wireless and distributed natures of WMNs make them subject to various kinds of attacks, which raise a great challenge in securing these networks. Most existing security mechanisms are based on cryptographic keys where a high degree key management services are in demand. In this paper, we present an effective key management scheme which seeks an encryption key assignment such that the induced network is connected and well protected against potential eavesdropping attacks. Compared with previous work, our scheme assigns the available encryption keys among all the nodes in the network. The simulation results show that our scheme out performs previous schemes through providing a network that is resistant against malicious eavesdropping attack.
KW - Wireless mesh network
KW - adversary
KW - malicious eavesdropping attack
KW - secure key management
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U2 - 10.1109/icc.2011.5962807
DO - 10.1109/icc.2011.5962807
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052182722
SN - 9781612842332
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
BT - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2011
T2 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2011
Y2 - 5 June 2011 through 9 June 2011
ER -