4th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness

Research Article

Towards Compromise-Resilient Localized Authentication Architecture for Wireless Mesh Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/1577222.1577254,
        author={Xiaodong Lin and Pin-Han Ho and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen},
        title={Towards Compromise-Resilient Localized Authentication Architecture for Wireless Mesh Networks},
        proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and  Robustness},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={QSHINE},
        year={2007},
        month={8},
        keywords={Wireless Mesh Network Security Authentication Thresh- old authentication Bilinear pairing},
        doi={10.1145/1577222.1577254}
    }
    
  • Xiaodong Lin
    Pin-Han Ho
    Xuemin (Sherman) Shen
    Year: 2007
    Towards Compromise-Resilient Localized Authentication Architecture for Wireless Mesh Networks
    QSHINE
    ACM
    DOI: 10.1145/1577222.1577254
Xiaodong Lin1,*, Pin-Han Ho1,*, Xuemin (Sherman) Shen1,*
  • 1: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Waterloo Ontario, Canada
*Contact email: xdlin@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca, pinhan@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca, xshen@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca

Abstract

In this paper, a novel compromise-resilient localized authen- tication scheme is proposed for metropolitan-area wireless mesh networks (WMNs), which aims to mitigate the impact caused by a compromise event on one or multiple mesh ac- cess points (MAPs) before they are identi¯ed and removed from the network. As a proactive mechanism based on a est practice" strategy - Defence in Depth, the proposed scheme can protect critical WMN functionalities, such as user authentication and hando® support, even in presence of compromised MAPs.