ARSA: An Attack-Resilient Security Architecture for Multihop Wireless Mesh Networks

DSA-Mesh: a distributed security architecture for wireless mesh networks

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have emerged recently as a technology for next-generation wireless networking. They consist of mesh routers and clients, where mesh routers are almost static and form the backbone of WMNs. WMNs provide network access for both mesh and conventional clients. In this paper, we propose DSA-Mesh, a fully distributed security architecture that provides access control for...

Security for Multihop Wireless Networks

Security Challenges in Multihop Wireless Mesh Networks-A Survey

Security is a paramount concern in Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) and also one of the core components in making WMNs successful and an enabler into different markets. A core challenge in securing the WMN is the large number of communication links over the air; as each mesh device may be mobile and deployed outdoors, each mesh link presents an exposure and vulnerability into the mesh network. Thes...

ROMER: Resilient Opportunistic Mesh Routing for Wireless Mesh Networks

Wireless mesh networks hold promises to provide robust and high-throughput data delivery to wireless users. In a mesh network, high-speed Access Points (HAPs), equipped with advanced antennas, communicate with each other over wireless channels and form an indoor/outdoor broadband backhaul. This backbone efficiently forwards user traffic to a few gateway APs (GAPs), which additionally have high-...

Increasing Performance in Multihop Wireless Mesh Networks

As the demand for flexible, self-organizing, largescale wireless communication systems increases, there remain significant challenges to achieve optimal network performance. Multihop wireless mesh networks are currently being used to meet this demand. However, with variable number of nodes and diverse network densities, multihop wireless mesh networks are traditionally plagued by low overall ne...