Securing IEEE 802.11 based Hybrid Wireless Mesh Networks

摘要：

In recent years, mesh networking has emerged as a key technology for the last mile Internet access and found to be an important area of research. The current draft standard of IEEE 802.11s has defined routing for Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) in layer-2 and is termed as Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol (HWMP). However, security in routing or forwarding functionality is not specified in the standard. The protocol does not provide authentication and integrity of routing messages which makes it vulnerable to many attacks. As a consequence, the routing protocol in its current form is vulnerable to various types of routing attacks. In this paper, we propose modified HWMP routing protocol for WMN which uses cryptographic extensions to protect unprotected routing information elements. We will show that the proposed protocol successfully prevents all the identified attacks.

作者: Ms.Divya Bansal Prof.Sanjeev Sofat

作者单位: Computer Science and Engineering PEC University of Technology Chandigarh, India

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2010 International Conference on E-Health Networking,Digital Ecosystems and Techonlogies(2010电子健康网络、数字生态系统和技术国际会议 EDT 2010)

会议地点: 深圳

会议语种:英文

页码: 431-435

在线出版日期: 2010-04-17（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）