A secure key management scheme in wireless mesh networks

Farah Kandah, Weiyi Zhang, Xiaojiang Du, Yashaswi Singh

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2011
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2011 - Kyoto, Japan
Duration: 5 Jun 20119 Jun 2011

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Communications
ISSN (Print)0536-1486

Conference

Conference2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2011
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKyoto
Period5/06/119/06/11

Keywords

  • Wireless mesh network
  • adversary
  • malicious eavesdropping attack
  • secure key management

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